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August 26, 2003
Cleanliness is next to...
Cleanliness is next to ... well, being an athiest, I can't exactly say godliness, now can I? :P
I've been gradually reducing the clutter in my living space significantly and I have to say that it's been well worth the pain of throwing sentimental stuff out. Sure it's fun to reminisce of times past but really what does that accomplish. Life lessons aren't stored in my old high school music collection on tape (I haven't owned a tape player since... well, High School nearly 14 years ago).
And it just goes on from there. Wholesale tossing of cd jewelboxes I never got around to using, disks for games that won't even run on modern operating systems, and piles of old clothes that were made sometime around the turn of the 8th century. BC.
There is actually something very therapeutic about dumping all this junk. First of all, it's getting rid of havens of dust, mold and other fun allergens. Second, it's getting me off my computers for some minor exercise. And third, it's helping me realize the ultimate point of one of the other golden rules: He who dies with the most toys, still dies. Collecting all sorts of crap that one doesn't look at for 10 years accomplishes about the same as buying a book and never reading it. So don't buy that book.
There is a little twist in this whole religious experience, however. I threw out the gigantic box that my TV came in--the TV that I've had for 9.5 years. Within two weeks, my TV has started its death throes. Of course the logcial explanation is that we've recently had a few fits of power outages (where my damn UPSes scream at me in the middle of the night to come and turn them off) that have been primarily responsible for the descent of my device. But it's still fun to think that with it's original packaging gone, my TV doesn't want to live anymore.
Posted at August 26, 2003 08:05 AM | Rants and Opinions
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