We See Clutter As WE Are

You've probably read that quotation by Anais Nin before, right?

But did you ever look at your stuff in that way?

Here's what I mean:

Your stuff is NOT about your stuff. The reasons you hold on to it, the meaning you give it, the emotional connection you have to it...none of it is about the stuff.

The meaning we give our things is actually about us, and about who we are, not about the item itself.

One person may see a broken flower pot in the backyard as junk and toss it without a second thought...and another person may see the very same flower pot and lovingly remember grandma using that pot every single year to hold daisies and feel love and connection looking at the pot.

Same flowerpot, with a completely different interpretation and meaning.

And the emotional connection is what can make it seem SO hard to let go of certain items, right?

But here's the truly wonderful news: the wonderful memories, emotions, and feelings are inside of the person holding those memories...and will still exist, with or without the flower pot. None of the love will go away if you choose to get rid of the flowerpot, because the love has nothing to do with the flowerpot itself anyway.

So when you're considering letting go of an item, remember that we don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are. :)

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