I’ve missed the last couple updates for my blogs, mostly because it’s been a hell of a couple of weeks. Between the family coming to visit and some relationship drama I’ve been on a bit of a emotional roller coaster.
But we’re back on the horse (trail/beam/tight-rope) and scheduling should be back on track starting with today.
With all of my stuff finally in the same state as me I’m starting to realize just how much of a pack-rat that I am. I have boxes upon boxes of things: crafts, books, notes from my college classes, posters from my dorm room, cooking supplies, clothes, etc. It was so much more stuff than I remember, and much of it things there was no godly need for me to keep.
Of course, not all of it is entirely my nature. When I left for college I packed up the stuff I wanted and left the rest like the scatter-brained, naively rude teenager that I was, and my mother was nice enough to box it all up and put it away. Those boxes eventually made it into my storage unit and took the journey north with the rest of my stuff to be deposited in a pile on my bedroom floor.
Opening these things was like walking through an old abandoned city, peering through dusty windows at the remains of a life long left behind. It was mix of notebooks and stickers, toys and college brochures, jewelry and bookmarks and long-forgotten photos. And with the dust came the memories, the pieced-together parts of a past, perhaps, best left forgotten.
So I’ve spent the last week digging through the stuff and culling out things that I don’t really need and- in all honestly- will probably never use. This includes almost a full crate of books, a full set of candle making and knitting supplies, and several tons of paper. Some went to friends, some went to free-cycle, some got sold.
Meanwhile the rest is waiting to be shoved into recently-purchased empty shelving or otherwise added to the catalog of randomness that is my room. But with every box that goes to goodwill, every pile of trash that I take out, I feel as if I’m karmically several pounds lighter.