Being a Grown Up

Ugh, how I hate being a grown up: paying my bills, cleaning the toilet, voluntarily going to the dentist-----don't you hate it, too?

An amazing thing is happening, though. A good friend of mine is about to build me a craft center in the closet of my spare bedroom, and before he can start, I'm having to clean out the space--- which is forcing me to go through bags and boxes of "shoulda been discarded long ago" nonsense of a me I haven't been for years.

This evening I got great emotional satisfaction from tearing up old credit card statements and boxes of checks from two long closed bank accounts. With every rip and shred, I tore up old attachments to lingering fears and stale relationships. This cleaning thing is being very empowering.

There's a metaphysical idea that in order for good things to come into our lives we must create room for them by releasing what we no longer need, or what's no longer serving us. Letting go of what we've outgrown is something we all have experience with---remember giving up that favorite jacket when the sleeves got too short, or passing down that wonderful party dress wore just once because the next year you finally had breasts?

What are the old attachments that you've outgrown? What have you been hanging on to that's no longer serving your current needs for empowerment? Time to clean the closet---go for it!

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