Keeping notebooks from childhood... or throwing them all?

[Laura Nuñez]

Hi! i've gotta question with regards to throwing old notebooks.

I'm traveling to Colombia and I have here all my notebooks, books, letters, etc, from young years.

Most of them are from school, maths, sciences, i don't see a point on keeping them, what for.

But then I asked myself if probably in the future, with process- I will need them for something? like to understand more deeper about my childhood, with the way i wrote, the letter i used, etc...¿? makes sense or there's really no point on keeping notebooks from childhood?

[Marlen]

Hi Laura

Not necessarily, meaning no need to carry them all the way back with them. Whatever you need will will either come up within you as memories or not, that will indicate what's still existent within you to walk in your process/ DIP.


So, what I sometimes did when going back to my parent's house and see all those notebooks is reading through them to see what I would think about according to the age I was in. With usually just one page or two we get the entire 'pattern' of what was going on in my mind and life at that time, the rest is just the same with repetition. However, this was just personal curiosity about it and in no way did I use that to walk my written process as what we currently write upon can be linked to the past, but we are able to bring the past 'here' as ourselves, as we are the accumulation of our past anyways.


The way that you wrote and how you wrote is not relevant, what's relevant is the patterns that remain within you that were sown during childhood that you can take responsibility 'today' as your every day living.


Enjoy arequipe!