the slide carousel

Went back to our storage space today. This, because i made it a goal to have the slides removed from their carousel and catalogued. I went down after lunch, fully intending to complete my goal, removed the slides from the storage space and looked. Twelve boxes of slides, thirty six slides to a box. These slides were all taken by my late father, and he dutifully marked each box indicating what the slides were. Nothing there showed they were pictures of family. Pictures of trips he and my mother had taken, pictures of Mexico, Australia, hong kong, Europe. Pictures that i realized, after reading the carousel, meant nothing to me. I have been carrying these carousels around for years and my thought now was, what am i going to do with them. Am i going to take them out of the carousel, catalogue them, only to but them back into storage for who knows how many more years? Am i going to take them in and have them converted onto photo CD's, only to store them somewhere again? Do all these slides have meaning to me? After a short pondering, i decided they really meant nothing to me, i didn't go to any of those places, so there are no memories. So i left them in the plastic storage container, carried them to our garbage container, and put them in. I didn't accomplish my original goal, and that was to catalogue the slides, but i did manage to have less stuff.