Moving House

I moved rooms in my house. A couple of months ago. So basically I have taken claim of two rooms. If a guest decided to come over and stay for the night, they would be sadly bedless. So today my mother wanted me to clear out my shit from the room and place them into piles of Donation, Trash and Keep. Mind you, we will most likely be moving to a smaller condo (not that we have a large house…just a large one for only two people. So much useless crap.) so it would be illogical for me to keep two roomfuls of stuff. In my “old” room, I left all of the items I had no idea what to do with: old notebooks and things that should make me nostalgic if I was a regular human being.
So I was sitting there trying to sift through this…wonderland of shit. And I realized I could probably dispose of all of it without a problem. Most of the things I wanted to say were for my sanity’s sake. Most of the items usually meant to make someone nostalgic just looked like other pieces of junk to me. I didn’t want my yearbook, truth be told. I was ready to just tell my mother, “We should just trash it all. Throw it all out. Quickly.” But instead I went though each piece of, let’s face it, crap, and decided if it was worthy of a space in my new room or even a new new room, in a new house. Someday, “I wish to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life…and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Mind you, Thoreau went into the woods to discover this and, although the woods he went into are very close to me, I will not be doing this. The outdoors appeal to me in idea but not execution, if that makes sense. But I would like to get rid of all of the things I find t be excess, which would take a lot of discipline. But, back to the title of this post, I think it would be easiest to get rid of only the essentials when depressed because when you are depressed, you really don’t care about the extra. At least, I don’t. But, you must also be careful because when a depressed person starts giving away his or her shit it may mean he or she is suicidal. So don’t be giving away your things when you are suicidal, just depressed enough. I figure, if you are unfortunate enough to be given this challenge, you may as well use it to your advantage as much as possible.
Ok, I’M ABOUT TO GET REALLY SERIOUS ON YOU. So don’t keep reading if you don’t want that.