So I’ve been putting it off as long as possible, but tonight I finally broke down and bought a new backpack. And I can’t say it wasn’t needed. My old one has had a hole in the top since my second semester in college and since traveling to Europe has had a steadily expanding hole in the threadbare bottom. Sometimes the zipper would get stuck and bits of its plastic lining were coming apart. But honestly, it’s been a great backpack. I bought it when I first came to college, so it is over 3 years old. The really amazing part was the it was a $15 Wal-mart backpack. So it truly lived above its expectations.
I can’t say I’m not a little bit sad to let it go. I get kind of attached to things that I’ve had for awhile. Not only did this backpack serve as something to carry my books around in, but I also took it on every trip I went on. It was there all those times I went home, to the beach, to Japan, and to Europe last summer. It really was well traveled lol. I was really hoping it would be able to last until I graduated before I finally had to retire it. I never thought it would last so long, especially those last six months with the hole growing in the bottom. But well, RIP backpack, you were a good servant.
