Sorry for the delay in writing again. I feel like I have been doing so much over the past few months that I struggle to remember everything and how I’m feeling about it all. Mostly, all is settled at the moment and I have impressed myself at times with how I have been able to keep going.

What I want to write about now though is holding onto things for no clear reason. The inspiration for this one comes from my slow, ongoing effort to clear out all the random things I have collected over the years and to locate things I haven’t seen in a while. I have found some things that I have forgotten about and didn’t realise I still had. I still have some paperwork from my very first year at uni, random scraps of paper that I made from conferences and even some things from high school.

From going through it all, it gives me an insight into what my mind can be like. Particularly, how our brains can be selective in the details that are fresh. Some things I hold onto and struggle to part with, believing they will be of some use or meaning in the future, which don’t make much sense later on. But there are things that I do need to find and remember that can be lost or harder to find.

This is still an ongoing process, so I don’t promise to have great ideas on how to address these kinds of thoughts fully. But one thing I have found is that doing this in small chunks has been less overwhelming. Also that it can be a freeing process when you realise down the line that you didn’t need to hang onto something from the past and you have space for something else in your life.

I hope my random thoughts here have made some sense and have helped. As always, feel free to get in touch with any questions/feedback/comments – I always love to hear them. Stay tuned for the next instalment.

Until next time

K