Tonight I was looking at my email. I thought "Hey! Maybe I should clean out some of my folders!"
I clicked "Manage folders" and looked at which ones had the most memory in them. Turned out my "Family" folder had the most. So I clicked there and started to sift.
Yeah, not such a good idea.
You know how time is supposed to help heal? Apparently re-reading things that have happened in the past undoes that. I don't know if there is real healing from some things.
I thought about just deleting it all... then thought, it will probably be important someday for my children to understand the dynamics of certain relationships and why they are the way they are.
I should probably print those emails out, but then I wouldn't know what to do with them and I would probably come across them more often and just end up crying again.
So, so much for trying to clean out that folder.
Maybe in a couple more years...