Ok, the first snowflakes hit the ground today, I guess I can’t deny it any longer. It’s winter. Slowly but surely we have to take those cosy winter coats and scarfs out the boxes and put them back in the closet. It’s amazing what you find in their pockets. Notes, checks, little pieces of paper and that earring you’ve been looking for all summer. And with them you find places and people and sometimes when you dig deep enough, you’ll find last winters emotions and in the best case their memory puts a smile on your face. And then there’s that moment when you have to decide whether to put all that back in your pocket or throw it away. Maybe you decide to sort it out later and carry them around for a bit, but after a while they get all mixed up with the new stuff that you put into your pockets and every time you reach into your pocket, you spend aaaaages just to try and get your shit in order and you end up forgetting what you were looking for in the first place.

I also figured that memories and emotions can be some heavy shit, even if you put them deep down into the darkness of your pocket, at some point the weight of your coat is gonna drag you down. Of course you could just take the coat off. That might be the easiest way to get rid of the weight but  there will be a winter next year and you will have to deal with it again once the temperature drops. So you might as well just dig your pockets for the extra baggage and sort out what is trash and what is worth keeping. Letting go of something is hard, even of something you didn’t think about all summer.

I will start this winter with empty pockets.
I think. What about you?