Cleaning up the past
Today I took up a rather brave task - cleaning up the attic....in the process I destroyed half of my personal history museum. Everything from letters to cards, gifts and keychains...everything that teenage is made up of....you know stuff you dont really wanna let go...
Hundreds of letters ;) ........ your own diaries and memorable trinkets you've collected from all over.....
I realised that it had been a memorable journey - these artifacts reminded me of so many forgotten adventures
And yet I realised that if it has been so memorable so far, there is no reason why the way ahead won't be so too....
And its also an attempt to get more present moment centric - when I destroy these artifacts, I literally disconnect from past memory traces....Not that I wont think of them ocassionally or cherish them, but just that I wont live in them...not brood in them
And the task was far tougher than I thought - almsot felt like a part of me going as I ripped each letter.......But at the end it did give me a feeling of being free....a sense of moving ahead.....and getting ready to create some new memories :))
Hundreds of letters ;) ........ your own diaries and memorable trinkets you've collected from all over.....
I realised that it had been a memorable journey - these artifacts reminded me of so many forgotten adventures
And yet I realised that if it has been so memorable so far, there is no reason why the way ahead won't be so too....
And its also an attempt to get more present moment centric - when I destroy these artifacts, I literally disconnect from past memory traces....Not that I wont think of them ocassionally or cherish them, but just that I wont live in them...not brood in them
And the task was far tougher than I thought - almsot felt like a part of me going as I ripped each letter.......But at the end it did give me a feeling of being free....a sense of moving ahead.....and getting ready to create some new memories :))
posted by The One at 11:42 AM
4 Comments:
precisely...clearing the "junk" from the past is one of the toughest things to do..with every stored artifact you have lots of memories attached...but then you got to clean it up to make room for more...
hey,
Happy Diwali!!
Cheers,
Karishma
Hmm... Fortunately or unfortunately, I did not have to go thru the pain. After I came to Bangalore, my family shifted to Mumbai from Calcutta, and I had been asked to separate out whatever I thought was 'valuable' from my load of trash. The rest was trashed by my family
Btw, Happy Diwali!
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