My Life In A Frame

This is what my desktop looked like the other day. Yup, it was a mess. Gavin my son took one look at it and said he wanted to kill himself. What can I say? It was bad. The sad thing is, I would say most of the time it looks this way. I have a drag and drop problem. I totally work from my desktop and I drag and drop everything there. (Big sigh!)

There are places in my house that look just the same. I'm guilty of dragging and dropping in every aspect of my life. My bedroom right now looks like I'm fighting for a prime time spot on the weekly show, "Hoarders." My study looks even worse. My desk down in my kitchen can't stay free of clutter for five seconds. I never have to dust the wood. You can't tell the desk is made of wood. It looks like it's made of a conglomerate of junk.

I finally cleaned up my computer desktop. Spent an entire day organizing it. Now it looks like this.

Now just look at both pictures. Sit for just a minute with each and ask yourself how you feel when you look at one picture verses the other. I know how I feel when I sit and look at the top photo, I too, like Gavin, want to tie a rope around my neck and fall from the nearest tree. With the top photo, my soul feels heavy, disoriented, and split into a million different directions. When I sit and look at the clean version, everything feels lighter.

So my question then is why do I allow it to get that way? The last few weeks I've been seriously analyzing why "THINGS" have such power over me, why they pile up, why they take over. I want to know. The older I get the more I long for a life that is quieter, simpler, and more minimilistic.

So today I started. I'm throwing things out! I'm refusing to let "STUFF" control my life any longer. I think of that book by Peter Walsh, "It's All Too Much!" I bought it. I read it. Today I'm following his number one tip. Have the urge to purge! I'm seperating all my junk into five piles: Keep. Sell. Give Away. Toss. Fix.

I'll let you know how it goes. I can already tell it's going to be a slow process.  There is one thing however I'm looking forward too, the peace that comes with less.