This is a personality test.
You can only take one of the following three items with you to your next house. Which would you choose?
- Sheet music from your childhood piano lessons. (You no longer own a piano.)
- Foam and duct tape sword your son made in eighth grade. (It looks like a four-foot long gray drooping penis with a handle.)
- Your mother's plastic jewelry box that you played with as a kid. (No jewelry inside.)
Scoring and interpretation:
- You chose the sheet music: Congratulations, you are an optimist! You envision the day, very soon, when you'll get back to music lessons. After all, the research shows that music training slows memory loss. Despite having no room for a piano in your new apartment, you are not discouraged. You've been dreaming of starting a musical co-op where you'll share space and instruments with your baby boomer friends. You can almost hear the jam sessions now!
- You chose the duct tape sword: Congratulations, you are a wonderful grandparent! Your son may protest that he will never want it, but you know that the grandchildren you're planning to have someday will. Your home will be well known as a treasure house, where grandchildren are encouraged to freely exercise their creativity and imaginations. It will be dress-up and put-on-a-play heaven! This will be the perfect prop for that medieval theatre production. You'd better be on the lookout for a suit of armor...
- You chose your mother's plastic jewelry box: This was a trick question. Of course you're going to keep something that was your mother's. This box either helps you remember her warmth and comfort on those days when you miss her, or it's something that you and your therapist will use to trigger a therapeutic conversation about loss. Either way, your kids will throw it out when they clean out your apartment, because they'll only see it as a scuffed up plastic box where you stored the costume jewelry for your grandchildren to dress up in.
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