It's an overcast Thursday morning and my mind is racing with a million things to do... laundry, lots of loads... but then I have to sort and donate half of the clothes... damn. I need to keep selling things, even though my room is starting to look more empty. I still have way too much!
The goal here is 100 items. Things. Stuff? How much do you need?
I decided that I can live with a lot less. After all, its the stuff that we surround ourselves with, that weighs us down in life. I think George Clooney's character, Ryan Bingham, put it the best with his backpack theory in 'Up In The Air':
"How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life... you start with the little things. The shelves, the drawers, the knickknacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV... the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home... I want you to stuff it all into that backpack... feel the weight of that bag."
Stuff can't make you happy. You have to BE happy. And that involves BEING, DOING, and LIVING, rather than staying in one spot and nesting. I prefer to run, fly and do the occasional big air kick! (Definitely retired from flips though...)
"The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living."Time for me to start moving! About to book the flights for my trip to Bucharest, Romania at the end of May. A week of travel to see the gorgeous Transylvanian countryside and mountains, Bran's Castle, Dracula, and the Transfagarasan Road, rated by Top Gear as the #1 road to drive in the world!
On return from Romania, I will travel to Algonquin Provincial Park, Northern Ontario to spend the summer working as a cook at summer camps. Nothing quite as beautiful or relaxing as the wilderness of Algonquin Park in summer. Its a hard life I guess...
Time to get back to sorting through things... and getting down to the really good stuff!
C.Stemp.Run... hopefully with less in my backpack!
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| The Transfagarasan Road, Romania is going to be a blast in my rental car!! Picture borrowed from: The Carpathian Mysteries http://thecarpathinasmysteries.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/10/transfagarasan-poza-de-sus-de-la-balea-lac-2/ |
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