We have a recent high School Graduate in our circle. We gifted her a journal for the same reason you spent the time reviewing old emails. I think having the paper trail to reflect on and then release/burn/ forget, remember, and forget again is a really interesting tool for self-reflection and allowing yourself to love your past naïveté and see how far we have grown! Sometimes it’s very cringy to look back, but thank god I didn’t have all the answers I needed at 23 and I'm glad I can see how I have misstepped in the past, so hopefully I don’t make those same mistakes again. Or at least I can make the same mistake in a new way. lol
As always thanks for sharing! It never fails to inspire an investigation and meditation.
Very much YES. When I moved to the island I was an avid journeler for the first year and a half I lived here. During that time I filled two leather bound journals — daily entries, processing healing and heartache and coming of age revelations, inspired notes, drawings. When I go back through them now they feel like a time capsule. And who knows, your graduate may some day feel inspired to pull some of their pages for everyone to read at their wedding ;)
Yep, me too! Everything before Feb ‘22 GONE with a few careless swipes and an app that helped me do it! I panicked and ran to the Cafe Mac in town to help me but they said it was a permanent loss. Yes and no! It took a few days to discover it wasn’t the tragedy I claimed. What freedom to just be now. Thanks as always for your muse!
Oh the panic! Such a metaphor isn’t it? The things we attach ourselves to because of the value we think they hold, some of it can be precious of course but if we really sift through it, it does just deserve a “delete” and the freedom to move on.
We have a recent high School Graduate in our circle. We gifted her a journal for the same reason you spent the time reviewing old emails. I think having the paper trail to reflect on and then release/burn/ forget, remember, and forget again is a really interesting tool for self-reflection and allowing yourself to love your past naïveté and see how far we have grown! Sometimes it’s very cringy to look back, but thank god I didn’t have all the answers I needed at 23 and I'm glad I can see how I have misstepped in the past, so hopefully I don’t make those same mistakes again. Or at least I can make the same mistake in a new way. lol
As always thanks for sharing! It never fails to inspire an investigation and meditation.
Very much YES. When I moved to the island I was an avid journeler for the first year and a half I lived here. During that time I filled two leather bound journals — daily entries, processing healing and heartache and coming of age revelations, inspired notes, drawings. When I go back through them now they feel like a time capsule. And who knows, your graduate may some day feel inspired to pull some of their pages for everyone to read at their wedding ;)
Yep, me too! Everything before Feb ‘22 GONE with a few careless swipes and an app that helped me do it! I panicked and ran to the Cafe Mac in town to help me but they said it was a permanent loss. Yes and no! It took a few days to discover it wasn’t the tragedy I claimed. What freedom to just be now. Thanks as always for your muse!
Oh the panic! Such a metaphor isn’t it? The things we attach ourselves to because of the value we think they hold, some of it can be precious of course but if we really sift through it, it does just deserve a “delete” and the freedom to move on.