Clearing unmasks the waiting-game we so habitually engage in as life-negating, as a missing of the moment. But we will never have more than the Now. Let’s flourish, let’s send bunches of flowers to the living, now; instead of bothering with wilting wreaths when it is too late to make someone happy.
Like in the following story.
‚A friend of mine opened his wife’s underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:’This,’ he said ‘isn’t any ordinary package.’ He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box. ‘She got this the first time we went to New York , 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on. She was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is it.’ He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothing he was taking to the funeral house. His wife had just died.
He turned to me and said: ‘Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion’.
I still think those words changed my life. Now I read more and clean less. I sit on the porch without worrying about anything. I spend more time with my family, and less at work. I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day… I’ll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if I feel like it. I don’t save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to. The words ‘Someday…’ and ‘ One Day…’ are fading away from my dictionary. If it’s worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now.
Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.
Stop waiting. Start living. Now.
Happy clearing!
