After this experience I am even more ready to simplify! All the stuff, multiples of everything so that there is one in each room, all the furniture I had to house all the stuff I never touched! All I can think about is, I don’t need this much space and I don’t want to do this much work to maintain it!
I have gotten rid of two loads of furniture and I have professional movers coming in the morning to take the rest either to my storage unit or my sister’s house. My sister has a big family so they are graciously finding homes for a lot of my furniture, which is a big help. I am storing a few things because I have no idea where on the spectrum I am going to end up. I may very well wind up with some sort of house that I can put furniture in and if that’s the case I have a few pieces I would like to keep.
Even with that in mind, I am sure that after my journey my perspective will have changed so much I will have different feelings about what I want to keep. I have a suspicion it will be a lot less than I am keeping now. But I think it’s important to go through the process. I was having a conversation with friends today and they were tickled that I still don’t know where I am going and don’t seem to care. It made me think. We are so concerned about knowing every step of the way and figuring out (what we think will be) the final destination. But that is not usually how it works, even if we think we have the answers they usually change. All we need to know is the next step. I also think that if we keep an open mind, different things will be revealed to us than if we insisted on sticking to some sort of plan. I am not advocating being irresponsible; anyone who knows me knows that I cover all my bases. But that is different than thinking I have to know the end before I even begin. It is very freeing to know that as I move through this journey I will learn things I never imagined and that will inform my next steps.
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