I've been meaning to do this task since I started playing. No truly earnest ideas came to mind until a few weeks ago.

Some of the best completions of this task have involved ritual, exploration, and closure.

Mine involves very little of any.

When I moved to Brooklyn a few years ago, I left a great deal of my possessions with a trusted comrade, always intending to retrieve them. Among these was a chest used to safeguard any and all personal correspondence I had ever received - nearly two decades of postcards, love letters, mix tapes, and exquisite penmanship (not mine, mine is horrible). There were some diaries in there too (mine and those stolen and gifted).



As I opened it, I thought: TASK: Keep Marching On, don't explore this box, just toss it.



This was a giant trunk of baggage I was wholly intent on bringing 800 miles to keep feeding nostalgia fuel.



To be honest, I was a little torn. Destroying a piece of my past, actually destroying it, would have been a more earnest completion of this task.



But that's probably just self-indulgent ritualism. Letting go means never having to say "I should have given a better goodbye."

Peace out, box of paper.