The Emptied Folder

If you are, like me, one of those persons who put off doing a lot of things to the weekend, then you can relate to the early rising on Saturday and go-go-go until Sunday evening when you then begin to think about plans for the following weekend.
One of the things I enjoy doing on the weekend is looking at any half-written blogs or blog post ideas from the week, and sorting them to determine those that may develop into a story those based on their content, that will never see the light of day. So imagine the consternation that mushroomed into alarm then sheer horror when I opened the folder that housed my completed blogs and blogs-in-process to see the words ‘empty folder’ staring at me from the computer screen. I had lost every single piece of work, months of tortuous story-telling, and the sharing of things about myself that I have never acknowledged until it stared back at me from the pages of the blog, all gone. I searched and searched but as the secrets whispered to a trusted friend, they had all disappeared.

A day later, I was still thinking about how and why my posts simply disappeared. Perhaps it was a message to move on and change the story being told because if you are, like me, one of those persons who can get stuck in a narrative, beating it through to multiple deaths, then you understand it can be a blessing from the Universe when things are made to simply disappear.

What are the things in our lives that we need to let simply disappear?
The things we are holding onto, even though the narrative needs to change?
The people we feel we need when they have long since stopped wanting us?
The baggage and burdens of our past that we carry like a first prize?
The situations that do not serve our highest good but we seem to fall back into?

Here’s hoping that the Universe will do us the favour and simply make them disappear so that all we see when we look at the screen of life will be ‘empty folder’.