Sorry kiddies(and Mrs.Krieger!), I didn't get around to blogging it up last night.
I came home and was informed that my room was in need of some serious cleaning. It took freakin forever. I was in there from around 6pm till 3am. Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those weirdos that leaves food and other gross stuff in their room. I just had too much stuff, and a weird attachement to all of it.
After doing that, I felt really sad. I couldn't pin point why, but I just felt sad. It made me think of that whole Buddhist theory that the root of sorrow (well, one of them anyway) is desire. As a culture we constantly want things. Now, I don't really feel like I'm a person that's materialistic, but the idea that it upset me that those things weren't there suggests otherwise. I felt comfort knowing that I had them. A lot of people are like that. In turn, I started to think about Palahniuk's theory that in order to create, you need to destroy. The idea that you need to lose absolutely everything in order to gain anything. If you've seen the movie, you know what I'm talking about. The quote below touches on the idea, but it's from the book, which in my opinion is better than the movie. It's a fictional story with strong nihilistic overtones, but I still feel that we can learn a lot from it.
You can borrow the book if you'd like. Knowledge is useless if it isn't shared.
"We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression."
Chuck Palahniuk- Fight Club
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I seem to do this kind of cleaning a lot. No matter how much junk I throw out, my room always seems to get messy again within days. I don't get sad about it anymore though; now it feels almost as though I'm de-cluttering my mind as well as my space. That's a feeling I really enjoy.
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