Important Papers
I spent part of Sunday morning going through my file cabinet looking for some old documentation.
We have all stopped printing out things over the last five years or so, but I have a whole bunch of papers from years gone by.
Things that I thought were really important.
I don’t really need any of them!
I have a lot of press from my books and it’s always fun to look at some of the reviews, but as I was sorting through it, I wondered:
Will my kids even be interested?
I have journals that have documented every day of my life since about 1974.
Just books and books of my thoughts.
I have only stacked them in a closet.
I’m thinking of burning them!
When I’m gone…
…will anyone care?
I wrote down my every day thoughts and I’ve kept this blog going every day for years.
To what end?
And the important papers?
They aren’t all that important.
I need a contractor’s garbage bag and a couple of hours with the shredder.
I walked away thinking about all the days piling up behind us.
All the ‘urgent’ things we do.
And then forget about.
Nothing matters and what if it did?
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