20 September 2008

Step 1: Reduce

I decided today that there is too much material "shit" in my life.

Looking around my apartment, I found item upon item that I haven't used recently, enough to be kept around, or at all within that past year of my life here in Higashi.

So starting Monday (the first of my two comped days for the sports day we've got coming up tomorrow), I'm going to go through each room and remove the unnecessary things from my life. Consider it a decimation of the household, though I'd be happy to remove more than 10% of all the things I own.

In the end, I hope to be able to glance around my apartment, viewing all 12 tatami mats in their uncluttered glory, looking at my large kitchen without seeing bags of "saved" things that I'll use at some other point, breathing a sigh of relief at the sense of peace that is going to envelop me as I head from physical attachment to vacated space.

That being taken care of, I'll have to take care of the ant problem next.

1 comment:

Dave said...

Use Less Stuff! (that would be my mantra, in response to your previous post.)