Letting Go
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I.
Time
moves
with a swiftness
that catches your breath mid inhale.
Sweeping the present from under your feet-
you are the remaining plates and silverware
from a yanked-out tablecloth.
Simplicity is about making time. We only get a certain amount of hours, it's not limitless as we sometimes feel it is. If you didn’t perceive your time to be limitless would you do things differently
The nature of bringing certain things into your life
will require movement.
Shifting, clearing, releasing.
Calling in requires space,
And space is made by letting go.
Sometimes what gets treated as self care is actually just basic needs; food, rest, sleep, water, play, love. When basic needs get set aside for the pursuit of achieving a goal or external mission, break down starts to happen.
Authenticity to me feels like finally stopping after running for a really long time. Breathing. Feeling still in my body, not my mind. A slow inhale and exhale. The place where you don’t have to hold on anymore, a releasing and deep vulnerability towards yourself. Softening.
I started refilling coffee in reusable jars not because of Zero Waste, but because I needed a solution for my clutter problem…Keeping stuff you don’t need or want, because you’re worried about what will happen to it, doesn’t solve wastefulness…
Michelangelo carved away and removed everything that was not David- releasing David, setting him free from the marble. I like to think of creating your life in the same way, where you’re removing everything that isn’t essential.
Trying to live a simple and clutter free life isn’t just about getting rid of stuff. Applying minimalism to all areas of your life eventually comes down to decluttering your internal world and getting closer and connected to who we really are.
In 2017, I got rejected from every Grad School MFA Program I applied to. Once I processed the general disappointment of being rejected, I realized that I didn’t actually want to go to school. Not getting into grad school was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Have you ever put something on from your own closet and felt like you were wearing someone else’s clothes? Or when something fits perfectly, but it just makes you feel a little off or uncomfortable, but you don’t really know why?
When we start to think about letting go, we often first approach it from the perspective of loss. We anticipate that by giving something up, we will have less and will be lacking, and that letting go decreases our happiness. But what is the opposite is true?
Perhaps
this is the first time
you’ve had to make sense
of loss.
Maybe,
you are
unfamiliar
with grief.