During the week I spent at my parents’ place this last holiday season I spent some time going through old boxes of papers from high school (I have a difficulty throwing away completed work so I had lots of boxes of past schoolwork) and kept finding pieces of paper folded in 1/8ths with random notes written inside and out all over the sheets. It surprised me to recollect this habit I used to have because in my transition into college a few years ago I stopped relying on traditional ruled notebooks and went mostly digital. My ad-hoc habit of taking notes and carrying a note sheet with me was inadvertently broken as an externality of no longer using notebook sheets all the time.

I never really thought about it until just this last break. Only about 9 months ago did I realize I wasn’t taking notes in my everyday activities and start to condition myself to do so (Now I carry a blank, brown Moleskine cahier notebook at all times which I love). I didn’t, however, put two and two together to realize why I stopped taking notes but just that I didn’t.

I can’t help but wonder if there are other good habits I had before college that I inadvertently stopped doing.