MY THOUGHT ABOUT MINIMALISM
When I read a book entitled ‘The life-changing magic of tidying up’ by Marie Kondo, I have been thought like ‘Hey, I’ve done this approach since I should have moved to Seoul from Busan’. At that time I threw away too many unnecessary things and things that didn’t have any good bounding with me.
Eventually, then I did it again when I have to move from Seoul to Jakarta. I throw almost all of my stuff. I buy three garbage bags of 25 liters and all of them are fully loaded with my stuff that I think I cannot be with them again.
I did it once only in a day. It feels like I have thrown away my half self. However, I knew very well that I should do it. I just keep the stuff that I love so much and I feel that I cannot live without them and ship them to Jakarta in only two boxes of Korea Post.
At that time when I am choosing which stuffs should I bring with me for my next journey of life, I feel it was difficult for me to sort things that I really have to let go of the memories with them.
Yeah, I let them go and let the memories within them fade-away on my flight to my home country that day.
I don’t know that reading Marie Kondo’s book is somehow a nostalgic moment of my biggest day of throwing away my half self when more than five garbage bags of my stuff are all gone in time.
I still cannot forget that day. As I honestly really wanted to bring all of those stuff to Indonesia but I can’t.
I extremely exhausted that day to the point that I held my self and keep saying it is okay, I have chosen to not choose them and I have chosen what I want to bring with my next journey. So, come on, be happy.
And yeah, I am very okay with that right now, and eventually, I will keep doing that because I feel that I will keep moving from one city to another.
Somehow, throwing away things I don’t need anymore and doesn’t love them anymore should become a lifetime habit as we are changing our loving every day.
