Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

There is nothing better than getting rid of what you don't need and polishing what you do. Every "thing" that I have around me has memories, feelings and energy attached to it in some way. Look around you. Every object in your peripheral has something either good or bad or possibly a little bit of both attached to it. Are you using this object? Does it make you feel good about your life or your circumstances when you see it? Are you saving it for someone who won't need it and won't have the same feelings for it the way that you do? I used to save empty wine bottles that held some sort of memory or maybe were from an occasion that I was afraid of forgetting. Honestly, now I realize the only reason I was saving those bottles was because I hadn't let go of that moment. The minutes and hours that we love and hate will all fade. The good feelings will be replaced and the bad feelings will someday disappear and will be meshed into that collective memory, but me keeping that wine bottle from that dinner five years at a time when I loved someone in a way very different than might be the way, now isn't going to bring it back. Nothing will be resurrected, just recalled. Make room for change. You won't take it with you and when you're dead someone else is going to have to spend hours sifting through it all.