The Things I Kept When I Thought I Had Nothing

The ones with no manuals, no price tags, and no backups.

An old screwdriver my dad gave me. It’s worn smooth and slightly bent, but still gets the job done.
A circuit board from my first working project — ugly soldering, but it worked.
A sketch I drew during a bad week, folded and refolded so many times the paper’s soft like fabric now.
A pair of glasses that carried me through late-night study sessions, solder burns, and self-doubt.

None of it’s fancy. Most of it’s replaceable.
But they remind me where I started.
What I pushed through.
What I built — even when I didn’t think I could.

So yeah. Those are the things I’d fight to keep.


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