Monday, August 16, 2010

Recovery - It's Just Things

If an ordinary life is about shit happens - it really does. So clearly the way to undo it is to get rid of everything. The last three weeks have really been about undoing. After 11" of rain in just a few hours, it meant over 3 ft of water in our finished basement. Ruining general things like furniture, necessities like the furnace and water heater, and of course momentos like Christmas decorations and childhood memories.

Depending on how you look at it, the emotion can have lots of meaning. It can be cathartic - like the cleaning you know you needed and getting rid of things cluttering your life allowing you to live more freely. But it also is emotional as you recall the history that will now only be a memory with no physical history.

The first couple of weeks the adrenaline carried me forward and allowed me to clean and remediate and replace all that was necessary. It's been the last few days that the emotion has started to set in and the difficult emotion of starting over has been difficult.

I'm reminded that life is filled with things that we give weight and value to, when truely its only people we should put our emotion in. We come into this world with nothing and need only the people who care for us. I believe we would all be happier with less attachment to things.

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