What do you want to take forward with you?
On moving forward | curating a future right now | letting go of knowing what letting go means
What do you want to take with you? As you will know from my last writing, we have had an offer accepted on a house in the Scottish Highlands and I am waiting to sell my Peak District house. As the thought of moving 250 miles north sunk in, I looked around the house and the sheer amount of stuff I had to take with me. Bikes I am tripping over in the hallway, paddleboard and outdoor gear as obstacles get to the freezer, piles and piles of books, a loft bulging at the seams with possessions I have long since forgotten about. How would I find the time in the next few months to sort and pack every item in the house? I could feel my stress levels rise at the thought, especially as this would undoubtably be at the same time as recovering from my second knee replacement and coinciding with my plans of expanding my business. I soothed myself by telling myself there would never be a good time, and somehow everything gets done despite the initial seeming impossibility of it all.
Soon my mind moved to what an opportunity this move could be though, in terms of clearing out the physical clutter I had accumulated from living in the same place for 13 years. How freeing it could be to get rid of what I didn't need anymore, remnants of a life that wasn't me any longer. How lighter could I feel without the weight of thirteen years of stuff just piling up? I immediately got rid of a couple of out-of-date toiletries in the bathroom as I was cleaning it, feeling this was just the start of letting things go. The question swirling around in my mind was 'What do you want to take forward into this new life?'
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