It's amazing how much stuff you can acquire in 30 years. These days I've been going through a "cleansing" process, I guess you can say. After years of being a packrat, I suddenly decided that it was time to throw everything away. I'm not sure what prompted it, but one day I noticed that we just had too much stuff. I felt like the masses of acquired goods were suffocating me.
I've always been a believer in simplifying to live a well-ordered lifestyle, but you wouldn't know it if you looked at our apartment. Perhaps sentimentality had a play in the increasing clutter - "I can't throw it away because so-and-so gave it to me." The future unknowns also had it's hand - "I might use this someday so I better not get rid of it." Or perhaps it was just flat out materialism. Who knows?
So little by little I'm throwing away, donating and questioning the use of objects in our home, and in a way it's helping to unburden my soul. The more objects I toss, the lighter I feel. It's wonderful.
Although, looking around our place I see it still looks horrible, but hey, at least I feel better about it.
4 comments:
thats cool! i love throwing/donating stuff too! :) it really is such a cleansing feeling haha
2nd that! I actually feel good about tossing stuff out or donating.. atleast someone else could make good use of it.
RYC: thanks for the compliments of my pics.. your pretty good yourself..
Salvation Army is coming tomorrow to pick up stuff at our place... yup, it feels good to share and clear out!
amen.
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