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01/02/2005: "Time for Organizing."

I love a new year. It's an opportunity for a fresh start. Of course, it has the unpleasant side effect of making one face the realities of upcoming taxes, closing books and getting things together in an attempt to pay the damn taxes. But I digress.

What I like to do the first week in the new year is to begin organizing. While going through some long forgotton books during the last three days I discovered that I had books that I no longer had the least bit of use for. Yes, they were once very valuable and meaningful to me --- decades ago. But not now.

Why do we carry items with us from decade to decade, well after they have lost their value to us? Things become a burden once their usefulness has ended. They create stress. Sometimes they harbor bad memories. Sometimes good ones. But we do not need things to have good or even bad memories.

So I am selling what I can, putting lots of stuff in the garage to give away in the spring and clearing out my house and my life. Yes, I can now get new things that matter to me now --- there is now room for them. But when their value is gone, so are they.

And that's my one and only new year's resolution.