Making the decision to go exploring, renting your house out and selling most of your belongings, is not a decision that anyone comes to lightly.
We spent many hours discussing the idea and planning what we wanted to do.
Actually, doing it and breaking out of the rat race, is a completely different ball game. It has and will stir up a plethora of emotions! Firstly, there is a sense of freedom from discarding the clutter, the stuff that has been unused for years.
There is lightness from living the simple life. I can see why religious orders choose to live with the minimum of personal belongings. It allows the mind and soul, space to simply BE.
With the clearing of excess belongings and the trappings of your daily life, you may also experience the need to get rid of emotional baggage. The hurts, angers, grievances and frustrations many of us carry around for years.
After a morning purging my closet, I had the urge to clean up old sour relationships. I wanted to clear out some of my emotional garbage along with the physical.
Speaking to people that you have not spoken with for years–due to disagreements and misunderstandings–can be daunting and rewarding. You will probably find, as did I, that some will be pleasantly surprised and receptive and some will still not be speaking to you. The majority eagerly took the olive branch held out to them.
What I got out of it and what you will too is the knowledge that there are always possibilities. That slammed door on what was once a warm relationship can open once again!
You never know there may even be a welcoming smile on the other side!
We found that de-cluttering and downsizing is liberating for the mind as well as the body, maybe you will too. We would love to hear about your own de-cluttering experiences.
Cleaning out the closet of the mind!
