I like things simple, yet I'm always amazed at how much work simplicity requires. The universe seems predisposed for chaos, and it's a constant battle to counteract that. One battle I've been wagging for a while now is decluttering my home. How did I get all this stuff?! My place doesn't have much storage, which has acted as a natural barrier to prevent me from accumulating even more, but I still can't believe how much can pile up over time. Some of these things I literally haven't used, seen or thought about since I moved in 7+ years ago. And as I continue the process of selling, donating, or throwing away the things I no longer want, it's been interesting to observe my reaction. Sometimes my heart knows something has to go, but my brain desperately wants to keep it. I do believe we have a biological predisposition to hold resources, and the conditions in which we were raised can absolutely have an effect as well. But for many of us, the stuff piles up far past the point of logic. And, like chaos, illogical thinking requires a lot of energy to combat. Although, I have found that even the things that were hardest for me to part with have barely even crossed my mind since I let go of them. I've learned that the goodbye is the hardest part. And the more I understand that, the easier the goodbyes become. As if the trick to letting go is to... let go.
"What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher." -Chuck Palahniuk
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