Thoughts
I am at risk of being over come by time sickness think about this, but I want more badly to write it down.
There was a period where I would re-read my old Thoughts very frequently. I haven’t done that in almost 2 years. I sometimes jump back, sure, but I’ll read one or two thoughts, or I’ll look for a specific one. I haven’t read through pages of them in a while. Leaving aside why that might be—I can feel myself forgetting who I used to be. Rereading my old thoughts reminded me of what I was thinking and feeling when I wrote them. And because I was re-thinking and re-feeling those things, I was anchored to who I was. I changed, sure, but additively. Even after I implemented Stop Worrying I constantly remembered what it was like before. Now, I would have to strain my memory to remember that time.
I’ve always been an introspective and retrospective person. But there are some times, more than others, that I regularly remember the previous stage in my life and allow it to define the next stage of my life.