Moments you remember

[milo]

I have this half memory in my head that comes to me sometimes. It seems obscured, like I can tell certain things about it, but not exactly what it is.

It's see through and blue. My sister and I got one at the same time, hers was red. It's a little plastic thing, maybe in the shape of an animal. There are little bubbles inside from the plastic injection molding when it was made.

When it was given to me, it was really important and meant a lot, even though it was just a small plastic thing. There are feelings of excitement at a new thing but also sadness attached to this memory, and the sense that maybe these little plastic things were given to my sister and I to cheer us up. My parents used to fight a lot when we were little and those sorts of feelings are attached to this memory too.

I can vividly picture the little bubbles inside a blue plastic something, but I can't for the life of me remember what that something was. But sometimes I think of those little blue bubbles and all the mixed feelings they conjure up.