Dorans Spritual Contemplation # 2 - Stuff

One of the most beautiful aspects i have found from traveling is how light i feel, besides a backpack of clothing and a few electronic devices i own so little, and it is such a beautiful freeing thing to be not tied down by piles of things. Especially sense i use to own mounds of stuff, the contrast to a bare room here is liberating. Finding that i can be quite content with so little makes me realize how unimportant all that stuff is. Especially when i look at the world and it makes me so sad what people fight, and kill each other for. I started one day with a personal challenge, i decided to find one thing to give away each day, be it a piece of clothing i never wore or a book i would never read. whenever i got something new i would give away an extra thing just to balance it all out. Its amazing how the saying a cluttered room leads to a cluttered mind. In the book "the Gospel According to Larry" the mystical Larry only owns 88 things, always giving up one thing when he got something else, this is a bit extreme but the image is beautiful. Give it a try, the less you have the less you hold on to and the freer it all feels even if you are settled in a home, a live and job, we all could do with a little more space.