Selah // Something Witty

If I’m out of daydreams? If I lose what is loved?

Date: 10.13.18 -- Day 96 ("30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  -- Day 13)
Music: "Forgotten Love" / Aurora

Prompt -- If you could have a/n [inter]national day to name and celebrate however you wished, what would you do?

(I've had three conference calls today, so forgive me if this is already an actual day or a semblance of a day that already exists...)

If I could have a day, it would be the Int'l Day of the Forgotten.

This day actually could be as deep or as light as anyone wants it to be. That fun hobby that you used to do in your twenties but got sidetracked by life along the way? Today is the day to pick that hobby back up again. Knit to your heart's content. Go out to the comic convention. Dabble in the thing you once loved. That skill that seems to have slipped through your fingers or that language that used to roll off your tongue that doesn't quite anymore? This day is the day to hop back on the bike or to download Duolingo to refresh yourself on the basics again. Forget the taste of your childhood favorite meal? Time to do some internet sleuthing and get out the pans. Or call up auntie and beg to be fed!

There are other things that have fallen to the forgotten. Cultural traditions, religious practices, old friends. Now there is a day dedicated to relearning the old. To give reverence to ancestors. To call upon something divine. To ring up or email or long write a letter to the person who you always said you were going to get back in touch with but never did. It is a reason to reach out.

It doesn't always have to be a day to remember. Maybe it is actively pushing something into the past. The old memories. The hurtful recurrences that seem to haunt you from day to day. That one bad act you committed when you were a child. That person who harmed you, so deep and so much, that there is no place for forgiveness. Today is the day that you push it into the place where it is lost to time. Maybe not forever, for some things linger whether we want them to or not, but for the day. And if not the day, maybe an hour. It is permission to pack it away and never visit it again.

So that's my idea of a day. What would you do on Int'l Day of the Forgotten?