Decluttering As Yourself
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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it's seven p.m. Right now in the middle of May and the sun from the western window is streaking golden light across my floors. The cut glass of my east facing front door is refracting rainbows. So my walls and floors are zebra striped in gold, pink and blue. Why am I telling you this? Touting the elegance of the light in my room? It's because the quality of light can make any space beautiful at any time. Light doesn't care about how much clutter is or isn't in a room light and shadow can coalesce in a de cluttered corner. Sure, they can also drape like blankets over toppled boxes and empty cereal bowls. The truth is, light doesn't care about how many things you have in your home. It doesn't judge. In fact, you could say that light is judgment non participatory, it just close and it beautifies. There is also a certain loveliness to an empty cereal bowl. Think sunlight blooming through red plastic. Imagine the silvery glimmer of a spoon or even the edge of a crusted on cornflake lined with gold Martha Stewart or your mother in law might not see it that way. But it's also true. That charm is often found where you look for it. There's a Japanese aesthetic that I adore called WAbi Sabi WAbi Sabi considers the impermanent asymmetrical and imperfect to be the essence of beauty in Western culture. We like things to go on forever to be symmetrical and to be perfect, that is no way to live too much pressure. Once you shift to using a wabi Sabi lens, you see gorgeousness everywhere you can become entranced by piles of dirt along the freeway. The texture and the organic shape enticed the knowledge that laborers will soon collect and holloway that soil haunts. I encourage you to try on this wabi Sabi lens right now, look around what's asymmetrical, what has flaws, What's going to dissolve, leave or die? Find the gorgeousness in that. What do you see the feeling of wabi Sabi is poison into? Yes, but it can also snap you into an appreciation for the loveliness all around. If there is clutter in your home, a WAbi Sabi eye for beauty will serve you well, WABI saBI is helpful when it comes to looking at your clutter. It's also helpful when you're refining your own decluttering process. Okay. Yes, but also gender roles. Can we talk about the pressures put on house spouses and stay at home parents for but a moment boy hold my hat, there's so much to unpack here. I'm sure you're familiar with the pressures. But let me list a scant few here. Number one, fresh organized food in the fridge, two, a garbage can that isn't overflowing. Three personal grooming and fashion on point four good relationships and parenting skills five a home ready for drop in visitors, six cookies in the oven, seven clean bathroom floors that don't have dirt and pubic hair in the corners. Eight carpets that don't crunch underfoot and then stick to the balls of your feet, let me clarify if you're the person staying at home with or without Children, there's a lot of pressure to take care of the house. This is, of course, nonsense. There are a number of ethical, sensible ways to take care of the house, which is a nice thing to have done, but it's not your job to do those things unless you want to.