🇬🇧MONTHLY SERIES: 📝Reminiscences of an Adolescent #3
Giving events their rightful space
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When I was reading my diaries looking for something interesting I could bring to the table for today’s third edition of our monthly series “Reminiscences of an Adolescent” I realised how much life I lived back then!
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So many events, positive ones, struggles, little daily life events, etc… all things that I, as an adolescent, felt, alongside analysing the world with those eager eyes that had not seen much yet of it… To be honest with you reading all those years of narrated events in one go was a little bit overwhelming, I could not bear all that information altogether so I stopped. So much time had passed since the last time I’d sat down and read my diaries, especially my n.4. In there, there are some specific life events that have impacted me deeply, which I will discuss with time as they are strongly emotionally charged.
When reading the pages I found something interesting I wanted to share with you in this episode, but then I decided to postpone that to the next month, as I felt it was important to discuss this topic as well today! So unfortunately you will have to wait until episode #4 to read about parental influence!
When reading, I realised that many of the things that happened to me, even the small ones, that I reported in the diary, were gone sort of unnoticed. Imagine a period in our adult life where nothing ‘major’ happens, or even the days at work where ‘nothing happens’… if you think about that, something always happens, but most of the time we do not give it space of mind as we deem it as ‘not important’. (and many events/people do not deserve it indeed hihi).
What I felt reading those pages was exactly that, that I very often deemed as ‘not important’ things that were actually important, and I did not even know about it. It may well be the reason why I do not really recall much of my young self… We cannot change the past, of course, and it is somehow normal that when we are adolescents we cannot really grasp all the shades of life.. but I would like to learn from this!
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I would like us to use this space to promise ourselves not to disregard things that happen to us. Everything shapes us and we need to give the events the mind space they deserve. If they are impactful events, even traumatic ones, we need to have the courage to let the event sink, to feel what we feel about it, to let it ‘teach us’ something, and we need to give ourselves the grace to accept us regardless, to love ourselves regardless, to keep inspiring ourselves regardless. Can we do this?
I’d love to hear about your experiences with this. What can you do today to acknowledge and honour both the significant and the minor events in your life? What steps can we take to ensure we don't dismiss our feelings or experiences as 'unimportant'? How can we better recognise and validate our emotions? Feel free to share events of your adolescence if you remember them or of your adult years, where you felt you dismissed an event that needed a lot more mind space instead. Can you do anything today to change this? Will you allow this event to come back to you and get its rightful space?
I want to encourage you to think deeply about your own lives and to share your thoughts and experiences, fostering a sense of community and shared learning here 🤲🏻☺️
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Annalisa x
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