As an adult with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD), organizing is a challenge. After breaking up with my boyfriend, memories and mementos filled my apartment and my mind, but I'm slowly sorting through the clutter.
by Jane D.
Tired of the shoulds and should nots, I decided to give relationships a hiatus.
Left alone, I had time to slowly take inventory of my life. Over the summer, I spent time doing something that I don’t usually do -- getting rid of some of the clutter in my life. I Windexed the windows, Swiffered the floor, and vacuumed the dust bunnies. I also sorted through mementos I knew that I should throw out, but had not -- dusty love letters, disposable cameras containing photos that were never been developed (and maybe they never will -- what'd be the point of looking at pictures that captured memories that are all so moot now?), a phone message from the ex-Boyfriend. I held on to these things. But I was holding on to nothing in the end.