What Has an Ordinary Object Come to Mean?

A key, a cup, a folded note: an ordinary object can stay the same while its place in our story shifts. It might come to represent a transition, a familiar routine, or simply something useful that never needed a deeper meaning.

Is there an object you’ve kept through a change in your life? What does it mean to you now—and has that meaning changed over time? You can share the object without sharing the private story behind it.