This weekend I kicked off the summer holiday with a camping trip with my wonderful cousins and their friends. It's amazing I like camping - I hate bugs, and until last year I would have never fathomed that I would slightly like being outside for a few days. But I loved this weekend, and I think love doesn't even say how much I really truly enjoyed it.
Camping makes me feel like I'm justified in proving to myself that I can live a semi-simple life, that I'm not a priss. I'm not sure why I want to live a simple life, because I do like the 'finer' things in life...but I don't want to be tied to things, or stressed from things. I have enough stresses in my life that I don't think material objects deserve to give me any kind of stress...I have complete control over them and I'm taking control.
A short while back, in one of my magazines, I read about this woman who likes to live with only what she needs. I dig that, she seemed so cool and together. I try not to be envious of people, but I want to be like her. I think this simplicity goes along with a lot of things I gravitate to...organization, streamlining, purging. It's all about getting rid of the clutter, the things you don't use. The things are in your kitchen drawers, in your closet, in your garage. Those things you have 'just in case' you need them. Most of the time, you don't need them...so they are just taking up space in your life. Wonderful Husband wanted to buy a watermelon slicer (like an apple slicer/corer)...I said no, we have a Chef's knife (and a nice one at that).
I'm going to try to live with only what I need and use. I'm going to get rid of those clothes that don't fit and opt to live like the Europeans...get a few good quality pieces of clothes and a few trendy pieces...then wear them often. I have probably 10 items in my kitchen cooking drawer, you know, those spoons, spatulas, ladles...it feels good.
I'm going to continue to go with it.
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