Tag: let it go

No action breeds non action.

Everything in your place has a place in your head. Some things are there for intellectual gain (books), physical gain (weights), or nourishment (food) but there are other things that you aren’t sure about. I have a foot massage machine that I haven’t used since 2012 that stares at me every time I need a towel. I enjoy foot massages, but I have never thought, you know what would be a good idea? Plugging up this foot massage machine I bought and letting it happen. There wasn’t any set up other than plugging the unit in, but that was a lot to handle.

Things sit for a long time. Even as they sit, declaring an action for a thing that is inactive is work. Unless you get more stuff and need that space, what is the harm in moving it? That foot massage machine sits in that closet for me because I try not to buy things anymore outside of books other than once a year(SHOPPING DAY!!!! I splurge on all the Amazon wants, my version of Christmas). I don’t see it often, and it seems a lot easier to let it sit there in the closet. Removing an electronic device in New York City is a headache legally. I could leave it in a box by the side of the road, but I don’t care to get anyone a ticket.

So, in turn, it just sits there.

When I go to other people’s places I visit , I keep track of things that haven’t moved. Stuff sits in a lot of apartments gathering dust. It is great to count dust gathering objects in an apartment during bad conversation at a house party. Bonus points if you nod your head while you do it, so it looks like you are listening (I really shouldn’t do that, but it makes me look attentive – working on it).

As I mentioned above, I am not innocent of this on the other side. I am bad at letting things go because it is easy to sit and let things gather dust. They seem to not be a bother, until after I meditated today and thought, once again, about things taking up energy, no matter how little you think of them. I had a completely different blog post today planned and ready to go, but instead I ended up writing over 400 words about a foot massage machine I don’t use.  So much  to the idea that this doesn’t bother me.

I am getting rid of that and the other stuff that doesn’t add to my well-being this weekend. Also, making it a point to get rid of everything once a month. It is another open loop, and an easy one to close at that.