Junk

It can be hard to define junk, especially when it was stuff that had utility and value to us. What was once a fun toy or game, an informative book or magazine, or clothes that we wore all the time, have now become junk in our eyes after a few years.

Why is that? Is it because our preferences have changed? Because our values have changed and therefore, we no longer value the things of the past?

Junk seems to be a relative term in that sense. It changes just as we change overtime. Not only that, it’s relative to each person. Something that is useful to one person will be un-useful to another. It depends on our outlook too, based on what we use or need from day to day. We get rid of “junk” when things no longer serve a purpose to us. We get new things to replace it, which will become “junk” later.

Thus, wouldn’t all of our possessions become junk when we no longer need them? Don’t they all have an expiration date, since they have the potential to be junk? The clothes we have now will become worn out and dated in a few years. So will the shoes, jackets, and books, movies, and magazines we own. Thus, “junk” is just stuff we don’t need or want anymore, but at one point, we did.