Thursday, November 03, 2005
Spring cleaning
It was spring cleaning time yesterday as I discarded stuff I never found much need for the last year or two.First to go were past billing statements of my credit card (who wants to be reminded of your debts anyway?). Don't need those for posterity. Next were stuff I never even knew existed before (aside from the dustballs that seem to be running after me the whole day). It was nice to be reintroduced to them but I need not have a relationship with most. And so I bid adieu to a rundown walkman, old documents from previous jobs, a thousand and one malfunctioning earphones and unsent invitations. I was much too happy though to be reunited with my good-as-lost books, and cards and letters I received the past few years. Oh, and I found some old pictures too of family and friends--some cute, sume funny and some oh so forgettable.
For some reason, spring cleaning not only gets the old and useless stuff out and the long-lost ones back. It reunites us with the past we ought to remember. It purges our every nook and cranny of a past we are better off without. It becomes a journey of the heart and mind as you decide which goes and which stays to get your life more organized.
It was difficult parting with some of the things I had to discard though. There were those I just couldn't let go off for now. Not yet. Maybe some other time. That's how life is, I suppose. Despite your best intentions, there are things that the heart just can't seem to let go of that easily. This is my life around me--junk, dustballs and all. Each box or folder is a physical manifestation of something that transpired in my life. Each has a story.
Spring cleaning to me--be it major or minor--is an act of (or a gallant attempt at) sorting one's life.
(Well, it's the thought that counts...until the next time my junk overwhelms me...)
