Tell me about the albatross(es) round your neck.

[Cir]

You know those things that we start off doing with all good intentions that, at some point, become a massive pain in the tits.

A couple of years ago I started a 'Dear Future Us' diary for DP. My plan was to regularly write entries about our life - the grand and the mundane - seal it in a box for us to open in 20 years time. I got off to a good start, then I stopped writing for a while. Then I got panicked about the fact I hadn't written for a whole. So I did a bit of writing. Then I stopped again. This was last October. I'm taking today off work so I can catch up on this bastarding diary. Future DP had better be bloody grateful.

I also got into diorama making earlier this year. I have an unfinished Christmas living room scene which I'd vowed to complete by May (having bought it in January). It winks at me every time I go into the spare bedroom.

I would love to just bin them both, just fuck them both off and take back the space in my brain that these fucking projects are squatting in. But I can't because I feel guilty and because I have a stupid "Must finish everything I start" attitude.

What are your albatrosses?

Ask yourself whether in 20 years you will regret not doing/finishing either of those things, or even remember that you started them. My guess is no, in which case bin them off and move on while googling "sunk cost fallacy" 😁

My mum started a massive Oriental freize in embroidery when I was 4...I'm now 42. she went to classes and they taught her how to do each technique to put different textures in it and what not. She did it on and off over the years, sometimes putting it down for two years here and there. it's about 7/8th's finished now, but her arthritis is now too bad for her to do any more.
My dd is obsessed with Japan and she found the bloody thing in my mums cupboard and is desperate to have it for her room. So she hatched a plan with my mum involving a lot of blackmailing me with talk of 'it's nans life work, it's tragic she can't complete it, you must finish it and pass it on to keep it in the family' etc etc...

So now I have it and a series of you tube videos to watch so I can learn how to sodding well render mount Fujiyama in thread!

But I do think that I'd regret not doing the diary. Its' the kind of thing I really like. I'm big into memories and reminiscing.

As for the diorama, I might advertise it on a local group see if anyone wants to take over the project.

Wow, you win. That's an inter-generational albatross alright. Blimey.