Adventures in Spring Cleaning: The Cleaning Games We Play – Part 5
To celebrate the arrival of spring, I thought I’d run some excerpts about the endless de-cluttering process from my memoir, Picking Dandelions, a quirky reflection on ongoing personal growth. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.
Adventures in Spring Cleaning: The Cleaning Games We Play – Part 5
My piles are sorted.
I feel a deep sense of satisfaction.
In this moment, on this day, I am free.
I determine to bask in this freedom for the rest of my life.
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I will set new rules for acquiring more possessions.
I will retrain my thoughts and emotions not to crave unnecessary items.
I will hold with open hands the few possessions that I do keep.
At this rate, my slice of Eden is guaranteed to be beautiful and clutter-free.
Which is why I’m shocked, just six months later, when I notice re-filled drawers and re-cluttered shelves and a bed propped up by unused possessions. I have no idea how these items found refuge in my house once again. I wonder if at night when I sleep, my evil yellow-sided house sends out some sort of homing beacon that calls its displaced furnishings and accessories back home.
And it is not just my resolve that I have lost. I have also lost some of the truths I discovered along the way. As it turns out, I, like the dandelion, cannot even seem to grow healthily on my own.
And so once again, I have changed. But I have still not changed enough.