The more I imagine my perfect life, traveling around the country writing and doing my show, the more I realize that I’m overburdened with stuff. I don’t need this stuff. I don’t have to have all of this stuff.
So what can I get rid of?
Over the next week I’ll be using Amazon to sell off most of my books. Many of them I won’t be reading anytime soon anyway. When I want them, I can probably find a library with the book.
And, ugh, there it is. The feeling of attachment. I loves my books… loves my books. I’m one of those people who even love the smell of books, ok? Anyone feel me on this? A new book has one aroma, the scent of an older book is completely different. I can even tell how old a book is by the smell… ok, no I can’t. But OH! I love a book.
So it’s really hard for me to get rid of these things. My most valued possessions are my computer and my library. I could lose almost everything else. And now, as I realize I wouldn’t have the room for all of my books, etc., I find myself resisting the purging of these things.
While this won’t be a real book, what I figure is that I can get this thing and keep a few of the books that have really meant something, that I read more than twice, and still have my library with me.
What’s most interesting to me about all this is that the more I imagine my ideal life, the more it begins to happen. Piecemeal, sure, but it’s happening.
Now, I’m a skeptic. Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m real, so anything else is automatically suspect. This imagining things happening and then they do smacks too much of”The Secret” and all this “manifesting” business which I frankly don’t buy into.
And yet, all of the success literature says essentially the same thing. What you think about becomes real. I don’t think it’s a spooky thing. I think it’s a natural thing. Still, it’s fun to watch it happen.
Later, if I want, I can have a home base big enough to hold a much larger library. So I keep moving toward this mobile, gypsy life that I want.
Still kind of hurts, though, getting rid of this stuff. Anyone else have anything they could get rid of but are attached to, maybe irrationally?
Talk to you later.
