Having made a decision to move our home, I am reminded that after making the decision and the implications of the move settle gently in my brain, the time to plan to assemble one's belongings to be moved to the new location begins. It is the most time consuming and laborious processes. That thought alone fills me with heaviness and dread. No matter how much I have, it is daunting and overwhelming. The appearance of simplicity is a beautiful reminder that it not need be so daunting and overwhelming and will require small, systemic steps that I can begin to take right now to prepare. As we are moving into a residence with a much smaller footprint, I know that means that I will be taking less. I do not like clutter. I like simple open clean and orderly spaces though I have not been successful in achieving this. However, this move opens up an opportunity to try again to live simply. I would like to embrace the elements of simple living, elements I have been striving to achieve since we left the Czech Republic for Bermuda in 2014. I am excited at the prospect of advancing even closer to my vision of what simple living is for me. The quotation on the card references keeping only those things that you know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. These are excellent conditions to apply to all of my belongings and purge those things that do not fit this category. I have a tendency to be quite ruthless in going about this process but even though there may emerge some residual grief later on, it is worth it. My family do tend to get upset with me when I apply my criteria to their stuff. So I will go about ploughing my own field and apply it only to my own personal things. The thought of going about the process in this way fills me with energy and enthusiasm. It is not daunting and overwhelming when I approach it in this way. To recreate a space from scratch and make it beautiful is the expression of creativity that pleasantly fills me up!
There is nothing like moving house to make us re-evaluate our possessions. Mostly it's good. But on one of our many moves we made my mother insisted on giving the dolls my grandmother sent from Holland to Goodwill. I still miss it. I'm glad you are letting your family make those decisions.