I put a picture from about 10 years ago in it - me and our dog Leo when he was still young and healthy, surrounded by
lots of snow. Although they are not on the picture, I know my family was nearby. And even though it's been nearly 9 years since we moved here, I still really miss the place. It was always cold, and one winter there was so much snow we couldn't get out of the front door, but I still adore that winter-ish feeling. Feels like home. It still feels more like home than this place ever does.
As pathetic and fangirlish as it might sound, the second item I'd put in the box is a copy of John Barrowman's Autobiography. I have only owned it for half a year, but so much happened in those 6 months and everytime I felt really bad (and there were a hell lot of times) I read some chapters, sometimes only sentences that would cheer me up, and I felt better.
It also kept me fighting, and helped me believe in myself.
It helped me spend a long, lonely night when I was pretty much terrified, sitting in an empty, dark waiting room in a Neurology Clinic. I even felt better the next morning, although I hadn't been allowed to sleep at all, and I had spent an hour, sometime around 4 am, in a room that looked like it was from another timeline, which was kinda creepy but after reading the next chapter, I yet again felt more confident. The book also helped me pick myself up a couple of months later when I finally got out of the daze of a slight epilepsy medication overdose. So believe me, this isn't some fangirl crap, this is about a book that keeps telling me that none of this will ever be the end of the world, and that I can be myself, and believe in myself and keep fighting.
The last item would be a leaflet from a world-wide choir challenge from 9 years ago. I'm not in any choirs anymore, and have no interest in being in one, though I still enjoy singing. And this isn't about the choir. Or the challenge, for that matter. It is about my sister, who is quite simply my favourite person on this whole fucking planet. There is no-one who has done as many great things with me as my sister and that choir challenge is one of them. One of the first, too. Cause I was 6 and my sister was 10. Ten years old, and guess what she did? She dragged her little sister with her to a beautiful town in France to that choir challenge. And even though I don't remember too much, what I remember is just wonderful. We won, by the way, although we only found out much later cause nobody could speak french well enough to understand a word of what they were saying.