Is there one item that has been with you since childhood that, for whatever reason, you have been unable to part with? The item could be an actual object or something more abstract if you prefer.
Hmm... I don't think there is anything I have carried with me throughout my life in terms of an actual object.
As for more abstract, well I would say my desire to draw comics. I can recall when I was about 7-8 years old and sending in a submission to Marvel Comics, it was quite a thrill to get my first rejection letter (really a postcard). Which encouraged me to keep drawing, and was signed by Stan the Man himself!*
*I realize in retrospect that it was probably not actually written by Stan Lee himself but still it was pretty cool.
