🎙️ Episode 6

Doom Piles: I Organized My Junk Drawer and Accidentally Reinvented My Identity (Episode 6)

Was it just tangled cords… or the tangled truth of who I thought I had to be?

🎵 [Imaginary Opening music: a cheeky pluck of ukulele, followed by a gentle swoosh of drawer-opening SFX]

Hi. I’m Angela. Queen of Focus-ish.
And today… I met myself in a junk drawer.

It started, as most spirals do, with a simple goal:

“Let me just clear out this drawer real quick.”

The drawer in question?
You know the one.

• 6 dead pens
• A coupon that expired in 2020
• 3 random keys that belong to NO DOORS IN THIS HOUSE
• A tape measure
• And a slightly aggressive twisty tie
  
  

So I started pulling things out. And labeling. And grouping.
And then I found… her.

Festival Me.

You know her — she lives in rhinestone pouches. She carries costume glue, extra glitter lashes, and that weird-but-iconic patch you swore you'd sew onto something in 2017.

And suddenly I wasn’t organizing a drawer.
I was reorganizing my identity.

🔄 The Drawer Breakdown

I made little piles:

• Tools I Actually Use
  
• Things I Feel Weirdly Guilty Throwing Away
  
• Dream Fragments in the Form of Safety Pins
  
• Items I Only Use at Burns but Cannot Part With
  
• Emotional Tape (literal and metaphorical)
  
  

And then I had a moment.

I realized this drawer wasn't “junk.”
It was a tiny museum of all the versions of me I’ve been trying to manage.

Organizer Angela.
Sparkle Witch Angela.
“Prepared for Anything” Angela.
And “Why Do I Still Have This Business Card from 2014” Angela.

Each one, still here. In this drawer.
All tangled. All tender.

🎯 Identity Realignment (aka The ADHD Purge Cry™)

So I paused.
And I said: “Hey… thank you.”
To all the selves.
To the drawer.
To the chaos that helped me find what actually matters.

I kept the tape.
I tossed the expired batteries.
I lit a candle and added one single label:

“Essentials & Magic”

Because that's what I am.
That's what YOU are.

We’re not junk.
We’re not chaos.
We’re just layered and luminous and trying our best.

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Next time, I attempt to clean the car and discover 3-year-old snacks and a long-lost part of my self-worth.

Until then — clean the drawer.
Honor your selves.
And maybe… keep the glitter glue.

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