Comments on: What do you do with your past? http://www.chelchasingcontentment.com/archives/891 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:16:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Lizzie http://www.chelchasingcontentment.com/archives/891/comment-page-1#comment-1099 Lizzie Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:57:37 +0000 http://www.chelchasingcontentment.com/?p=891#comment-1099 You keep them:). Just think how fascinated we are when a journal from history is discovered. Your will be the same way to your loved ones. <strong> Fascinated... confused... could go either way. :) </strong> You keep them:).

Just think how fascinated we are when a journal from history is discovered. Your will be the same way to your loved ones.

Fascinated… confused… could go either way. :)

]]> By: bee http://www.chelchasingcontentment.com/archives/891/comment-page-1#comment-1094 bee Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:26:24 +0000 http://www.chelchasingcontentment.com/?p=891#comment-1094 You should definitely keep them! I was never good at keeping journals! You should definitely keep them! I was never good at keeping journals!

]]> By: Mika http://www.chelchasingcontentment.com/archives/891/comment-page-1#comment-1089 Mika Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:34:34 +0000 http://www.chelchasingcontentment.com/?p=891#comment-1089 Your journals are a reflection of who you are. You have to keep them! <strong> Ok, but if something happens to me and Eliza reads them, she's coming to you for answers for a good three to four year span of my life. Good luck to you. :)</strong> Your journals are a reflection of who you are. You have to keep them!

Ok, but if something happens to me and Eliza reads them, she’s coming to you for answers for a good three to four year span of my life. Good luck to you. :)

]]> By: Jean http://www.chelchasingcontentment.com/archives/891/comment-page-1#comment-1088 Jean Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:23:07 +0000 http://www.chelchasingcontentment.com/?p=891#comment-1088 I absolutely have kept all my journals. I read through them to rehash memories I've totally forgotten. I really love to read the parts where I met the hubs. They way I wrote it so non chalantly.."so I met some guy at work, that keeps begging me for my e-mail, I just can't seem to shake him." :) Glad I found you again..I stopped by awhile ago. <strong> Welcome back! I'll have to find my journals from when I met Mike and see what I said about him. </strong> I absolutely have kept all my journals. I read through them to rehash memories I’ve totally forgotten. I really love to read the parts where I met the hubs. They way I wrote it so non chalantly..”so I met some guy at work, that keeps begging me for my e-mail, I just can’t seem to shake him.” :)
Glad I found you again..I stopped by awhile ago.

Welcome back! I’ll have to find my journals from when I met Mike and see what I said about him.

]]> By: Heather Young http://www.chelchasingcontentment.com/archives/891/comment-page-1#comment-1087 Heather Young Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:39:17 +0000 http://www.chelchasingcontentment.com/?p=891#comment-1087 Keep them. I figure that even though I can't bear to read them some day my kids will. Keep them. I figure that even though I can’t bear to read them some day my kids will.

]]> By: Rosanne Osborne http://www.chelchasingcontentment.com/archives/891/comment-page-1#comment-1086 Rosanne Osborne Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:59:45 +0000 http://www.chelchasingcontentment.com/?p=891#comment-1086 Yes, yes, yes! Keep those journals. Now that my family is dead, family friends of my growing up years are gone or scattered beyond my address book, and my memory is on a sliding scale, I long for the journals I never had the discipline to keep. I suspect that we go through an embarrassment phase about the way we recorded the past in our youth, but we don't stay there. We begin to treasure what was, in whatever form it was, as we age. I think of the letters destroyed, the photos left unidentified, and questions I never asked my parents with extreme regret. I always believed that if you couldn't remember the past it had no meaning. On the cusp of fading memory I recognize the folly of that notion. If I had it to do over, I would keep copious notes on the pleasant and the unpleasant. <strong> I'm pretty sure I didn't keep any journals during those times when Mike's mom was so sick and he was traveling all the time with his classes, and I was sure our marriage was going to fall apart. I guess I didn't notate the unpleasant so well. :) But I'll keep them. Just for you. And you, of course, were always mentioned well... Mike's mentor, the woman who showed him he could teach and love it. We will forever be grateful to you.</strong> Yes, yes, yes! Keep those journals. Now that my family is dead, family friends of my growing up years are gone or scattered beyond my address book, and my memory is on a sliding scale, I long for the journals I never had the discipline to keep. I suspect that we go through an embarrassment phase about the way we recorded the past in our youth, but we don’t stay there. We begin to treasure what was, in whatever form it was, as we age. I think of the letters destroyed, the photos left unidentified, and questions I never asked my parents with extreme regret. I always believed that if you couldn’t remember the past it had no meaning. On the cusp of fading memory I recognize the folly of that notion. If I had it to do over, I would keep copious notes on the pleasant and the unpleasant.

I’m pretty sure I didn’t keep any journals during those times when Mike’s mom was so sick and he was traveling all the time with his classes, and I was sure our marriage was going to fall apart. I guess I didn’t notate the unpleasant so well. :) But I’ll keep them. Just for you. And you, of course, were always mentioned well… Mike’s mentor, the woman who showed him he could teach and love it. We will forever be grateful to you.

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