"Juxtaposition, n.
It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer."
- The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
And juxtapose, I will do.
Ever since the start of my 365 Days of Happy project, I keep on pushing myself to have the consistency and faithfulness to write one entry a day. At first, it seemed absurd. What do I write about? I could not possibly force my creative wind to blow when there is nothing. Surprisingly though, every night, ideas just come in. It takes a little introspection on what gave me a grin for the day, but I am slowly getting good at this -- acknowledging the small things, patting myself on the back for my own daily accomplishments.
So today... someone gave me some colored pen set with markers. Oh, joy!
For some people who know me, it is an obvious fact that I am a big school/office supplies hoarder. I collect pens. I buy boxes of pens and keep them in my pedestal, I have notebooks and planners and.. oh, the list can just go on. I cannot be compliant to 5S/6S campaigns of keeping your work station to its bare minimum. It somehow requires only necessary things you use daily to be put on your table (read: like one pen only, because you only need one to be able to sign documents, woman!). In short, I cannot be Zen. Thinking of clearing my desk and leaving just one pen, my laptop and a notebook is agony!!!
Anyway...
The pen set has a higher purpose, apparently because today, I got this in my mail!
It's a Smash Wedding scrapbook which I orderd from Shop Tiddlywinks! I have done some scrapbooks since I was in grade school and somehow, creating something for my wedding/relationship and arranging all my kept mementos seemed like another exciting project. This is something I thought I needed to do to remind me of these moments in my life since I am such a forgetful person <read my last post, haha>!
So when I got home, I gathered my keepsakes, and voila!
Now, there is a place for all of these stuff I have stored!
It was fun going through all the things I kept. There was this exchange of notes by me and my ex-boyfriend, now-husband of a list of ten things we hate about each other which we hoped to address, love letters (or case studies posing as a love note) among the deck of photos and other memorabilia.
As the scrapbook says, keep it messy and beautiful. That is exactly what I plan to do.
How about you? What's your "happy" today?
xx,
Corporate Junkie
