I was thinking the other day, about how I'm basically trying to simplify my life. I thought about everything I've accumulated, and everything I have, and everything I want. Then I thought about what I need. And placing these two ideals side by side, I was pretty disappointed with what I saw. Call it a revelation, a moment of enlightenment, the fact of the matter is... that my life is filled with stuff that I don't necessarily need or really want that I carry with me everytime I move to a new place. Then I thought about how our personal lives are like that -- we're filled with all sorts of issues and things in our lives -- incidents we've carried since being child, fears and insecurities brought on by our lives as young adults, all these burdens that we still carry, but we can't bear to throw away. How do we start making sense of all this?
I think that one must start with the basics... what do you need, what do you want, what do you already have?
Hey Mike, I'm going crazy with the comments today. =)
I think you wrote about this before. >=)
I think I probably did. I think about this everytime I have to do a major cleaning/packing.