I tried the 2024 note summary. #337

I tried doing a note summary for the first time. It seems it summarizes your most-read articles and such. When I tried it, it generated the results in an instant. Here are the results.

The article that reached #1 was this one.

“The story of how I continued decluttering until I had zero pairs of pumps, and then felt drawn to an unexpected color and took a step forward.”
I'm happy about this because it's a story I personally quite like, haha.
It's a story about decluttering shoes. After I kept letting go of shoes until I had zero pairs of pumps, my favorite pair came along. It wasn't that I found a favorite and then let go; it was a story about realizing that by letting go first, a truly favorite pair comes to you!

It's a story where I felt firsthand that rather than waiting to find the next thing before letting go, letting go decisively first is what brings the best things to you. It feels like this applies to everything, not just material objects, and it has become a theme I want to keep in mind somewhere in my life from here on out.

#2 is this one.

“After giving birth, things didn't feel right anymore. This isn't a negative thing.”

This is the only article this year that received over 100 likes, haha.

After giving birth, there was a period of feeling hazy where this and that just didn't feel right anymore.

There was a time when I felt like everything around me—both things and events—was filled with a sense of discomfort, and I felt like life had become difficult to navigate. To put it dramatically, it was to the point where I had the illusion that my life had been hijacked by childbirth?!

Work that I had been able to continue without difficulty no longer felt right.

The distance in friendships that had continued with a close sense of proximity no longer felt right.

This and that among my personal belongings no longer felt right.

The things that I felt happy about seemed to be changing? It felt like my own updates couldn't keep up.

At first, I couldn't even realize that everything was filled with discomfort; I was just feeling hazy, and I had a negative take on everything, thinking that my life had shrunk due to childbirth and that I had to downsize everything about myself to match that.

Then, at one point, it hit me.
It's not a negative; it's a turning point.

It's the timing to scrutinize what makes me happy.

I have written about hints for scrutinizing happiness in the past.

Since this was back when I first started note, it wasn't read much at all, but it is something I cherish and want to reread periodically to remind myself.

Because what makes me happy changes, I will face it once and scrutinize my happiness.

I will forget this immediately.
As I write this now, I remembered that I had forgotten it again, haha.
Writing things repeatedly is important, isn't it.

Here is number 3.

"The story of how a friend I had grown distant from remained distant"
It is a story about how I was supposed to meet a friend I had grown distant from for the first time in a while, but in the end, various things happened and we didn't meet.

I thought about rescheduling, but I gradually started to remember the past experiences with that friend that left a rough feeling in my heart.

Now, I wonder if it is better not to meet after all?
The fact that we couldn't meet means exactly that.
Because for the people you are meant to meet, you will end up meeting them no matter what.
If I meet them now, won't my heart feel rough again just like it did back then?
Perhaps I shouldn't meet them in this home that I have been working so hard to keep in order.

Thinking that, I still haven't met them.
It was an episode that made me realize I have gradually become able to value maintaining the health of my own heart.

It was interesting to look back on it myself.
It is a little early, but I look forward to your continued support next year.

Well then

Today too

A new day

is beginning.