Stuffocated

I saw a television program on my onscreen guide by this name.

It is one of many of the decluttering shows. It is truly tragic to see the conditions that these individuals showcased have conditioned themselves to live in. Of course, it doesn’t happen overnight. It is the slow accumulation of one thing after another as well as the attachment to those things. They have come to believe that thousands of empty egg cartons covered in mold and rat droppings are essential to their well being or happiness.

It’s not just stuff. We are all susceptible to this kind of attachment. It may be to people or solitude, food or fitness, shopping or saving. Anything taken to such an extreme causes an imbalance in our lives.

Sometimes, we have to condition ourselves in the other direction. Making slow, but deliberate steps to ensure that we don’t end up surrounded by a mountain of a mess of our own creating.