If yesterday was tough...

*NOTE:  This blog post was written a week before it was published, so this does not carry any oblique references to any broad current events.

 

I use a journal as a place to write musings, ideas, notes to myself, or just a scratchpad.  I’ve been using the same notebook for almost 2 years now so the early pages are an interesting look back in time.

I started reading back at the beginning of the journal, to see what old thoughts I might have had that are still percolating, or ones that were in my head but I never pursued, in case there were any gems left behind.

Instead what I discovered was a cliché question with an important implication:

Will I even remember this a year from now?

In one of my journal entries, I wrote about frustration and anger with a person in my life.  Since I don’t journal for anyone else’s benefit, I don’t necessarily explain a current situation in my writing, so when I read this (without the context of it being the present moment), I couldn’t even remember this person I wrote about.  I have no idea who this person is or was or even their relationship to me.

How important could that moment or experience have been if I can’t even remember the situation or this person a year later??

It was a glaring reminder that the things that make us feel all up in arms, twisted up inside, or downright outwardly upset may not even be important enough to recall a year later.

This surprising reminder gave me another tool for my emotional toolbelt: a prompt, a question, in troubling moment: does this hold a place in the grand scheme of my life?

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Kayleigh Noele

Kayleigh is based in London, UK and New York City, NY. She has worked in web design for almost two decades and began specialising as a Squarespace Web Designer, working with 100s of small and solo businesses worldwide, in 2017.

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