That’s part of my point: I’m not the same person, or even the same set of personas, that I was 10, 20, 30, etc. years ago. Neither are my friends or family from back then. We’ve all changed, some even changed much faster, in the span of less than a year or even a month, some have drifted apart, some are gone. What we said or did back then, has in most cases little to no relevance to the present state of things. What we think we remember to have said or done, is often not even accurate.
Having an “Earthling” object representing a set of expired relationships, of outdated understandings, serves no positive purpose when most people change but lack the understanding of their own and other’s changes… and the object just becomes a liability when exposed to third parties.
In an ideal world of understanding, tolerance, respect and forgiveness, it would be great to have an object representing the changes, growth and evolution of a person over time, a document of their history, a sort of biography of both the good, the bad, and the average. Unfortunately, that’s not the world we live in.
We still have photos, videos, even chat logs and internet posts, that let us reminisce over old times, but they —more often than not— get distorted by our current points of view.