Letting go seem like harsh words that resonate in my head, each time telling me to leave people, things, memories behind. When can one truly say that they are unattached. Along the course of our life, we accumulate all these things that we think are so awesome, amazing, beautiful, brilliant. But then as we move along and grow up, we only remember how amazing we felt when we first received them. And only and only because of that feeling that lasted 10 seconds may be, we keep things for 10 years. No, I am not exaggerating. I still have or should I say had clothes I wore during my school days. No kidding that was 10 years ago.
I'm trying to make a point here. While I was ranting about how much stuff I have to pack before my move to the Big Apple, my friend suggested this exercise. I still don't know how it made sense to him, since he can probably pack all his things in one car and go trippin, but here goes.
Each day for one week, both of us will get rid of one thing that is dear to us.
Day 1: Junk Jewelry. This is the day when you tell yourself, ok this is something that wont kill ya to get rid of...cheat a lil.
Day 2: Stuffed Toys. This is when it starts to hit you to take this exercise a lil seriously and get rid of things that once made you really happy. Even if it came out of your brother's first salary.
Day 3: Shoes. Ok S%^$ just got real. This was hard. I mean a girl can never have enough shoes. But when you have another 30 pair of shoes waiting for you some of them just don't cut it.
Day 4,5,6: Moving Sale. Let's just say this accounts for the whole week. After day 3, things got a little easier.
Day 7: Collection of random things. Things you hand pick out of the lot are hard to let go... ok I'll admit I kept a few out of these. But I still got rid of the rest.
I'm trying to make a point here. While I was ranting about how much stuff I have to pack before my move to the Big Apple, my friend suggested this exercise. I still don't know how it made sense to him, since he can probably pack all his things in one car and go trippin, but here goes.
Each day for one week, both of us will get rid of one thing that is dear to us.
Day 1: Junk Jewelry. This is the day when you tell yourself, ok this is something that wont kill ya to get rid of...cheat a lil.
And now the final test of it all. How do you prove to yourself that you are unattached? In my case, fate did it's wonders. My Nikon DLR camera slips off his hand and goes right into water fountain under the CN Tower. What do I do? Start laughing and not feel a thing. Now that to me people is one successful experiment.
