My room looks like a hurricane has rushed through it! I'm trying to get ready for Chapter while simultaneously beginning to pack the boxes I'm going to ship back to Seattle at the end of the summer. Which leaves me with a few questions:
1) Why do I have three boxes packed and a suitcase half packed and my room is still full of stuff?
2) Why do I have all this stuff?
3) Where does it come from?
4) What else can I give away?
As I said to one of our Senior Sisters the other day, I'm not interested in going back to the way it was but there was an awful lot of wisdom in having two habits and one trunk. My goal in life - or one of them - is to be down to the contents of a few boxes by the time I die. I have a LONG way to go!!!!!
On the bright side, at least I no longer have 10+ car loads of personal belongings! There is some progress to be seen.
3 comments:
Well, when you get married and have some kids, the stuff accumulates even *faster*! The first time we moved - before children - it was all held in the back of a pickup truck. The last time, it was a moving van and a semi-truck... where does it all come from?!
It is amazing how it accumulates, isn't it? In my case, I've been living in the spirit of poverty, with all of my things in one room in a convent. I don't have a lot of money to spend, I don't buy much. And yet, I swear my belongings have multiplied like they are those furry animal things from Star Trek (tribbles??).
Simplicity takes constant intention I think! And would be might hard to do with kids I imagine.
I still have my trunk from the moves of my youth! It gradually evolved into a coffee table, then storage for my piano music, and then I put my cat's litter box on top of it when I inherited my beloved dachshund, Bruno!
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