As you may know if you have looked through this blog, I do a summary of my year in short and sometimes cryptic bullet points. I love writing that blog and I keep a draft all year around that gets updated with the new, recent things that have happening so that I don't forget anything that might be have been significant at the time. I enjoy sometimes have to work out my own memories by the cryptic clues I leave myself so I doubt most people would know what they are, but I can't tell everybody everything!
I love doing that, and it's important to me that I remember everything that was important to me. I know now that some of those events and bullet points don't even matter to me a year or two down the line, but they affected me at the time and they made an impact on my life in some small way. They were very important to me at the time they were happening otherwise I wouldn't have included them.
Sometimes, I worry that I'll forget about the things I love and have loved in the past. Things that I got excited for, that I watched or listened to or read or played with over and over again because it made me happy. Songs, books, films, TV programmes, greetings cards, cuddly toys.
For example, my Dad bought me a cuddly toy dog who went by the name of "Doggy". He was an Afgan hound puppy but you would never have guessed, and I had him since I was 2 years old. He was my favourite inanimate object in the whole world for my whole life. He still is. My boyfriend and I also love Tigger from Winnie the Pooh and we had a little baby Tigger and he was adorable. I loved them both extraordinary amounts for a 20 year old. Except I had a disaster. We took then on holiday with us to Tenerife in September and when we got to the airport on our way back to England, I realised I didn't have them. I was distraught. But I never want to forget them because they, Doggy in particular, had a huge impact on my child and adolescent life.
I think it's hard to remember everything you loved when you were younger. TV programmes and films and songs that you will never make a physical notes of to remember them, Maybe that will be a new blog for me. "My favourite things". Just so I remember.
I encourage everyone to remember their favourite things, even once you've lost or outgrown them. Once upon a time you were excited for it, you loved and lived for it, and most of all, it made you happy. Maybe you can look back and remember and take happiness just from the memory, or seeking it out again and remembering why you loved it so much.
You should always try to take as much happiness as possible for everything, living or inanimate.
Try to remember.
x
