It has been a madcap week of moving. With an insane deadline of a one week closing, we definitely had our work cut out for us. On top of moving out of our home, my office moved to a new hospital, and my mother moved to the other half of her duplex. All in one week. Quite frankly, moving is not easy. Moving is a lot of work. Moving sucks really.
But…as we closed the doors on our 10×20 storage unit, my son looked at me and commented that our entire life was contained within it. This made me reflect on the fact that in order to fit our life in a 10×20 container we had to sort through all that we owned and make some hard and some not so hard decisions on what we needed and what we didn’t. Humans are hung up on stuff. We seem to want to acquire stuff so that we can sit on our big piles of stuff and feel…what? Satisfied? Fulfilled?
Selling, donating, recycling, and purging our excess stuff has been the one act that was actually the most rewarding. It seemed like everytime I cleared something out of that garage that we were one step closer to our trip.
So, all this reflecting made me think that at least once or twice in a lifetime a person should move and use the opportunity to purge and ensure a smaller footprint on our planet. Even if it is only to the duplex next door.
May 28th, 2009 - 2:12 pm
I agree! It’s not the ’stuff’ that makes you happy, it’s family, friends and living your dream! People are way too materialistic these days! Doesn’t it feel good to purge and get rid of the clutter?!
Ali
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