I came across every and anything from my past. Some of my stuff brought back the best memories: The Bahamas Cruise 2009, that I took with 7 of my girlfriends; andddd It brought up some pretty rough memories. It's easy for me to remove a person from my head, and sometimes from my heart. But while I've did all that, I kinda neglected to get rid of the "Stuff" that was still cluttering my closets.
And we cant forget the pictures, ticket stubs, and souvenirs that I've collected along the way.
Why? Why, do we keep these things around when they are usually associated with bad memories, or that one person you just want to forget. I was actually able to get rid of every single picture with me and an ex. However; there is this one Polaroid picture of me and "Him", at a restaurant we went to for my birthday. Now I've ripped up more than a few pictures of US, but that pic has never got disposed of. I was speaking to my bestfriend AW today, when I came upon the pic, she said I'm probably keeping it because It was celebrating Me. And I have to admit that was my best birthday.
One Picture, and One stuffed teddy bear, But everything else has got to go. Is there anything your keeping in your closets? I wont tell anyone. =)
Self Love: Having the strength to throw away unnecessary garbage............... including Humans.
That's all for today. I'm expecting some big news tomorrow so please pray for me, and don't forget to Stay Chocolate.
I've moved more times than I can count on two hands and two feet. In my travels I tried to hold on to anything that could be tied to people I thought loved me. However, what I discovered in my travels is that you can't carry everything with you. I think the best way to describe it would be a song by Erykah Badu "Bag Lady". Once I truly listened to the lyrics I started to throw away, delete, and destroy anything that had a memory to ex's. One relationship in particular meant the most to me and taught me the greatest lesson about life. I have one item from it, a ring. It was a ring we got while we were in Florida and he said it was a temporary engagement ring. We both had identical rings and we placed it on our ring fingers to symbolize our bond to each other. I threw it out over the summer. We have to learn to let go if we want to move forward. Keeping the "junk" and "stuff" to keep us tied to people who don't truly loves us is our downfall. They'll never be that person captured in the photograph nor will they ever be a part of our lives and we have to learn how to let go of worthless junk.
ReplyDeleteAww I Love it! I guess that's kind of like my bracelet. I loved it so much that no matter what we went through I wouldn't take it off. And finally weeks after our breakup I had to take it off to put a different set of jewelry on, and I never put it back on. It was like I was free. and ever since I took it off great things have happened! I wont throw it out, but I wont wear it again until It symbolizes something different.! Thanks for the comment!! =)
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