Brand new year! Full of possibilities! How did you start your year?
I started by going through junk drawers.
Well, it all started by putting away the Christmas decorations. Every year, when it's time to put away decorations, I go through all the boxes and reorganize them since I get a new nutcracker and a new ornament every year.
I noticed when we were decorating the tree in the beginning of December that one ornament was missing. But then, when I was closing all the boxes I remembered what happened. I left it out to be fixed. And where did it go, you may ask? in the junk drawer of the credenza we have in the hall way. When I opened it and started to go through it, I was in disbelief how many things ended up there including the ornament. Things to be fixed, things that supposed to be somewhere else, things I didn't know what to do with, things I was looking for, and other categories about things.
As if one is not enough, I realized my house has ... let's just say, more then 5 drawers full of stuff! Any drawer that doesn't have an obvious function rather than collect stuff, is considered a junk drawer.
Now, how am I supposed to have clarity about my life, and all the projects I want to become reality if I don't have clarity with the things I already have?!
And the digging started. It's never pleasant to dig through junk.
Yes, at one point, that junk was great stuff. However, now it's not being of service and must go. This process brought discomfort, impatience, frustration, mental fatigue and physical fatigue. I wanted to just close the drawer and call the quits. But I didn't and I kept pushing though. My box for donation started to fill and after a couple of hours I had gone through three junk drawers. It's hard to believe how much we change the values on things. Something that at one point was so important, later on it's not valuable.
Side note: We give people and things value and meaning. You don't like something or someone? Well, change the way you see them.
I'm determined to go through drawers and spaces where things are accumulated. My intention is to create space for renew and repurpose.
As I go through these drawers I imagined my mind full of drawers and rooms. Some are filled with amazing memories that I treasure and makes me so happy when I revisit these places. But I also have drawers with junk, that prevents me from seeing things clearly.
I'm choosing to only keep what brings me joy. It's not easy to let go of things we are accustomed to, even things and people that don't bring joy.
So, here is to a brand new year! I'm not looking for joy. I'm making space for joy to manifest in my life. As you can imagine, there is a lot of 'let go' that needs to happen.
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