I realized as I kept cleaning that I make these lists with relative frequency. It's often simply an inventory of friends. People I care for very much at the time of inscription. Sometimes, it is a list of people that I would invite to a hypothetical celebration, or people I should send a letter.
These lists never develop into much more than a list. They are just names lined up on a little scrap of paper that gets shoved under piles of other papers, until I come across them again during an all too infrequent apartment cleaning.
The challenge is always deciding what I should do with the list.
