the dejunking continues. I have a lot of crap within the walls of a 12x12 room. As I carried a bag to the garbage yesterday it felt like I was burying a small child. but have no fear. it was just tons of stuff I cant even wonder why I've kept it this long. I've cleaned out EVERY drawer in the room...and I started on the closet. It is tough to get rid of stuff in there. I have my 72 hour kit, so that is not trashable, backpack/travel bags/bedding, and of course clothes. But what I have a hard time getting rid of is something I will call my memory box. Its contents include, but not limited to: my first ever purse (yep, you heard right, a little pink head purse), my collection of bells from everyplace I went growing up, my 12 teeth from when I got them all pulled at age 12 (the bag says 'pieces not teeth.' I'll take the bag's word for it...I could probably throw those out), every story I ever wrote as a teenager, my report on Walt Disney in 6th grade (and it's Resurrection in 7th and 10th grade), and my first ever photo album (complete with all my fisher price camera's photos, from my first plane trip to Lubbock with Lisa at age 9 on up threw age 14 at girls camp). There was one notebook that was in there that I thought I had lost forever...the trinkets (tickets/pamphlets/junk) and my journal from my family's famous 'back east trip' of 1995! But as you can see from the list, most of this is hard to let go of, so it goes back taking up space in the closet. Really, I am not making much progress in the closet at all, but at least I am finding all the missing pieces from my scrapbook. I wish I had before and after pictures to show the progress, but documenting this in writing is good enough.
Yesterday it was so easy to just let go of so much stuff, and today...not so much. Sometimes it is easy to move on and move forward. Other times it is really hard. I wish there was a happy medium between mourning & respecting the things of the past. someday I'll be able to figure this out, for now I am doing the best I can.
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