#Microblog Monday 347: Time Moves On
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I get Erin McKeown’s infrequent newsletter. She sends it out every once in a while, and it’s one of my favourite things to read.
In her most recent edition, she talks about how some songs (and put in any form of self-expression in that space that fits your world) are still relevant down the road, and some no longer fit.
“Time moves on, feelings change, we grow and grow older. Sometimes songs stay fresh because they grow with us, other times we need to keep singing them to remind us of important things, but sometimes it’s totally fine to put a song in the tomb, roll the stone in front, and let it stay there.”
I really love that idea of always weighing how something fits; whether it’s worth keeping around as a reminder or whether it’s better to set it in its place and move on to other ideas, experiences, or expressions.
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Well, I went through one of those “put it in the tomb” phases this weekend, when I tossed a bunch of stuff – including my birthday candle, which got burned til I was all of…5.
(It’s a candle burned once a year on your birthday – it goes to age 21. It’s always a delight to be reminded that the 4th child is mostly an afterthought. Even when they are the youngest.)
I also found a copy of my ACT test, so I had my daughter try it (I didn’t remember getting a copy of the test and answer sheet with my results). That was kind of fun.
I feel this way about books. I was talking with a friend a while back and recommended what I thought was an amazing book. His response was “nope. We don’t like the same books.” And then he named a specific book I had said I liked and he hated. Many years ago. But looking back, I would no longer love that book. My life is different. I have children now and I’m older and have a different perspective on the story. So yes, I agree that some things still fit and some things don’t, as time moves on.
I also agree. Things speak to us at a particular time in our lives. Some of those things stay. Some are useful just in the moment. Some help us remember things we want to remember. Some do the opposite. It’s very much the same in terms of our personal thoughts and habits – some might help us when we need it, but might hold us back when they are no longer necessary, or even might become actively destructive.
(Hmmm, that comment went way further than I thought when I wrote “I also agree.” lol)
Love this. Makes me want to purge stuff. And makes me feel marginally better about some friendship shifts that have happened recently.
This makes me think of some Deepak Chopra meditations. I do the free 21 day ones whenever they’re available and then buy ones that really interest me. Those I listen to over and over. It’s always amazing to me that the ones I seemingly randomly choose to listen to at a given time feel new and really relevant to me at that particular moment… sometimes even more than they did when I chose to buy them.