Cleaning
I’ve been going through stuff and purging, cleaning, and organizing. It always amazes me how much I keep “because.” Some for sentimental reasons, some because they’ve been passed down, and some because I couldn’t throw them away for some reason the last time I did this.
For example, I’ve been hanging onto a framed picture of a puppy I had four years ago for 3 weeks. She died of a brain tumor at the age of 9 weeks. I remember it was very very sad at the time, but really, do I need to keep a framed picture of her? I moved it to a scrapbook, where it won’t collect dust (or at least as not as much) anymore.
Other things are more difficult to let go of, even though it doesn’t matter to the person who’s gone what I do with them. Pictures and journals/diaries I always keep, but slowly other things that I swore I’d never be able to part with leave the house. Important, still-meaningful items remain, and they’re all the more meaningful because they were carefully selected as a memory or a reminder of a special person.
Sometimes in life you have to let og. I have had to do this on more tham one occasion. It is hard but you have to move on in this life and accept material things are not based on the past. Move on and live your present and future life.
As an inveterate packrat, I find it hard to part with stuff too. Especially when it seems as though I end up needing something as soon as I throw it out.