Congrats on your new lightness!! I started doing that as well but I got lazy and caught up in reading some of my old post which were far more poetic and passionate than they are today. I was quite the angsty bloke back then... lol... now I'm just worn. I hope that your new memories to be stored here good ones!
I think that is why I stopped posting, I just ran out of words. Like I'd used them all before in a million different ways and still had the same results ... it is good to document your journey through life but jeez, sometimes you just have to jettison some cargo before you sink. I felt like I was drowning under so many words, so many memories and so much heartache.
It feels so freeing, doesn't it? I did that with my old journal, went back and deleted almost everything but the very most recent posts. It felt good, like tossing old baggage you don't need anymore.
Hey gorgeous! I love a light journal-I try to keep it to a single page. Mainly, I think I do this to help me focus on the now. It doesn't mean I forget what has happened-that's not possible, even if I wanted to. It just means that I want to index me by who I am becoming and focus on that unencumbered.
We may have tiny journals, but we have enormous minds.
Hey, I was only talking about you to a friend the other night, I think that is also what made me think of you, then your journal, and it's minimalist attitude.
If only I called you as often as I thought of you :/
I know what you mean there- I have become even worse than I was when it comes to calling people- I even considered reverting to the use of carrier pigeons at one point but even that seemed too much...
A lot has happened for me in the last few months/years. I've graduated (with honours), I've gotten engaged to an awesome girl, I've moved to Sydney and I've got an awesome job as an Information Architect at a very cool consulting company down here :)
The only down side is that I don't get to spend time with the guys any more, but I'm sure I'll generate a new bunch down here soon enough :)
It was daunting, a sign of my determination was finding and installing programs that did the deleting for me, had I had to do it manually I would have given up.
It has helped enormously, for the most part. Like a huge sigh of relief.
Now if I forget things, it's natures or my brains way of making me let go. I did get sorely tempted to look back and then I'd remember something awful, or even something good ... and it would be too much.
Now I can just let it all go and to hell with forgotten memories :D
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Like I'd used them all before in a million different ways and still had the same results ... it is good to document your journey through life but jeez, sometimes you just have to jettison some cargo before you sink.
I felt like I was drowning under so many words, so many memories and so much heartache.
Time to move on, methinks! :)
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*hugs*
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Same journal. Same person, no baggage.
I'm so glad I'm not alone in doing that, thank you :D
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Mainly, I think I do this to help me focus on the now. It doesn't mean I forget what has happened-that's not possible, even if I wanted to. It just means that I want to index me by who I am becoming and focus on that unencumbered.
We may have tiny journals, but we have enormous minds.
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If only I called you as often as I thought of you :/
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As long as you remember the people who gave you good times along the way :)
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Long time, no talk or text or anything.
Course I remember the peoples, the good ones.
How could I forget someone as awesome as you? :D
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A lot has happened for me in the last few months/years. I've graduated (with honours), I've gotten engaged to an awesome girl, I've moved to Sydney and I've got an awesome job as an Information Architect at a very cool consulting company down here :)
The only down side is that I don't get to spend time with the guys any more, but I'm sure I'll generate a new bunch down here soon enough :)
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I've thought about doing that, but I think part of me is afraid to. Ridiculous.
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It has helped enormously, for the most part.
Like a huge sigh of relief.
Now if I forget things, it's natures or my brains way of making me let go. I did get sorely tempted to look back and then I'd remember something awful, or even something good ... and it would be too much.
Now I can just let it all go and to hell with forgotten memories :D
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