Hey! Move it!

I think I might be in the minority, but I enjoy moving. Having lived in the same room of the same house in the same town for 18 years, I like having the chance to be somewhere new and different. I like the fresh start. I also enjoy sorting through the massive amounts of stuff I have managed to collect over the past year. Throwing out a majority of the things you manage to collect in the course of a year is a very cleansing process. This cleansing prices really makes you decide what is important amongst all of your belongings. It kind of makes you think of what is important in your life. Most of the time, I like to drag around things (particularly papers, such as biological science notes from 7th grade) around for years before I eventually throw them out. Similarly, I like to carry hard and heavy feelings around with me before I eventually let them go. I think most people are like this. I think when we have a fear that we will have to face the world head on; we can no longer sit in the corner feeling sorry for ourselves. So we hold on to our pain as long as we can, hoping we can continue to lick our wounds until we are confident again. And so we carry our stuff around with us, even though we will never again use our various old t-shirts, high school notebooks or free magnets. Whenever I clean, I feel like I am not only throwing out my 2007 soccer schedule magnet, but also any hard feelings I have been carrying in my heart. So, I like moving because I like having the opportunity to clean out my life, both literally and figuratively.