Clutter

We frequently find ourselves deciding that we must get more out of life. That we are not doing enough. What is curious is that all too often, we feel this way because we are not participating in life as we think we should and we proceed to try and get more. Take more. Acquire more.

The problem grows as we become even more dissatisfied, more impatient, so we climb and seek power and attempt to gather even more stuff into our already crowded lives.

What we really need to do, is to start giving. Not money or stuff, although that might help, but give more of ourselves. Spend time and listen to the children. Visit, and provide for others. Use our stuff to help others. Be wherever we are while we are there, and not off somewhere else.

I often feel as though I should simplify my life and get rid of my stuff. But I can do this without clearing the garage. The real junk I need to get rid of is in my head, and heart, and soul. There is all kinds of good stuff there too, but the junk keeps getting in the way, and somehow forces itself to the forefront, making it somehow more important than the things that really count.

Clearing the clutter, both physically and psychologically will only solve part of the problem. The spiritual clutter needs to go too, and I’m finding that in my case it is legion. In fact, I need to give priority to the spiritual clutter, then the psychological. Assuming I haven’t died of old age before I’m done, then I can work on the physical clutter.

Who knows, if they carry me out feet first, then it’ll be someone else’s problem!