Making room for good things

I am slowly getting rid of as many of my possessions as possible.

I am very late to the Marie Kondo party because I naturally resist jumping on bandwagons precisely because everyone is doing it. I still haven’t watched Tiger King. I don’t think I ever will. But when I did some reading about the method and the reasoning behind it, I saw why so many people would engage in rethinking how they interact with their spaces and their things (or at least watch a television program depicting others doing so).

The idea behind the Marie Kondo method is that things have an energy, and when we keep things in our home that are no longer useful to us, they have an impact on us. Our homes should be a joyous place, so the things in them should bring us joy. When we allow ourselves to let go of the things that no longer serve us, whether it be an old sweater, a toxic person, or a job that is sucking the life out of us, it leaves space for better things to come in. It’s scary. We think it might hurt to let those things go. But when they’re all boxed up, you realized you don’t miss them. The connection was severed a long time ago.

During the fall I put all of my clothes on my bed, went through them one by one, and got rid of all the ones I didn’t see myself wearing when I make the move to LA this summer. Today, it was books. Post-COVID life has made the task of sorting through books a little different, as the question, “will I read this?” has increasingly become…”probably…what else is there to do?” So instead, I asked myself the question, “do I want to read this?” What you see above got a resounding yes. As you can see, there’s plenty of space for something new and exciting.