This is my last semester of college.
Having moved out of the dorms on campus and into another apartment once, I know that the process of moving again after graduation is going to be incredibly painful. On top of that, I am also the kind of person that does not work well in cluttered spaces. In spite of this, my life is filled to the brim with clutter. I find myself participating in productive procrastination every day- instead of focusing on studying for neurophysiology or revising creative writing assignments, I clean the apartment. Once the cleaning is done, I organize my notes, or I work on a new bullet journal, or I worry myself with some other aspect of some kind of clutter.
This year, as more of a proactive move to save myself a great deal of suffering than anything else, I think I am going to try downgrading the sheer volume of stuff I own. This is going to be no easy feat. Already, I have several boxes of clothes, books, and miscellaneous bits and pieces ready to be donated. And my apartment still feels entirely too full of things.
As of right now, I have no idea how to go about minimizing the amount of rubbish in my life. I’ll likely start watching Marie Kondo videos and searching extensively on YouTube for tricks and hacks. I will be updating my progress (or lack thereof) through these little posts while also reflecting on what it feels like to get rid of so much stuff.
What is important to keep and why? Am I feeling more liberated, or are my spending tendencies going to negate the progress I make? Hopefully, these posts will allow readers to share their own ideas and tricks, or to be inspired to also begin downgrading the number of material things in their lives in search of a different kind of fulfillment.
Or, at the very least, you can laugh at how slowly this process is going to be for me and sympathize with how hard it is to get rid of that one pair of socks.