You pride yourself on not being terribly attached to your possessions. When with something, you feel down.
Our daughter is having trouble letting go of a couch. It’s not only the couch she’s having trouble letting go of but the . It was their first sofa. It has been loaded onto moving trucks and unloaded Three kids have jumped on it. It’s so worn that the only way you could sell it would be in the .
Yet she can’t let it go easily and asked me if that was strange.
―Completely,‖ I said, ―You get it me.‖
When we were ready to sell our things, I sold our cradle at the neighborhood garage sale. I had pieces of it in the garage and the others in the house. A young woman said she wanted it for her baby. My throat and tears began to well. She pulled out cash and my face up. But when I returned with the other , I was all out crying. ―Maybe your’re not to sell it.‖ the woman said.
―No-o-o,‖ I . My vision was so blurred by tears that I nearly her with one of the side rails. ―It’s fine, really,‖ I cried, ―Take it.‖
Our to stuff grows in direct relationship to the amount of time it has sat in one place. You think, ―Hey, we’ve hung it this long - it must be valuable!‖
Our accumulations of treasures in relation to the ever-increasing size of our houses. And when we outgrow the storage space in our homes, we someone else to store them. Storage unit facilities faster. There’s money to be made from people who can’t let go.
The most extreme to part with things has even been transformed into entertainment in the form of a television show called Hoarders.
Let the sofa go, I told my daughter. It its purpose. You can get a new one. Give the kids some crackers and juice boxes and it will be like the one in six weeks.
In daily life, we do need to let go of the past, because only in this way can we welcome the new world.