people, originally simple, have no extravagant hopes and delusions. After a long time, I experienced more things, and my heart became complicated. Too many thoughts, too much burden, too many worries and too tired to live. My heart is full of clutter. Is the lack of cleanliness and simplicity.
before you are seventy, you do addition. Life needs, hobbies, will continue to buy and add a series of items, books, electronic equipment, furniture and household appliances, and so on. Over time, things fall in bookcases, desks and corners of the house, and more and more things are put, more and more miscellaneous, and the more chaotic they are, so that they have to pass sideways when entering the house.
After the age of 7, life begins to do subtraction, and all kinds of treasures stored around you must make up their minds to "give up". Besides the necessities of life, throw away what can be thrown away, give away what can be given away, and sell what can be sold. If you want to leave it to your children, let them choose to stay. If you don't want it, you can give it away or sell it, or throw it away directly. Don't be reluctant.
My parents are farmers and cherish everything. Every brick on the roadside will be picked up and laid on the ground and placed in the corner. After the death of parents, all kinds of things cleared in the room were packed in six cars, pushed out and dumped. My mother-in-law cherishes things more than my parents. She is reluctant to throw away a waste paper box and a plastic bag. Obviously, there are new clothes bought by her children, and old clothes that are badly damaged just refuse to throw away. They are packed in plastic bags and put in the room. Dozens of plastic bags have been discharged to the bedside. After the sudden death of the old man, he also moved dozens of bags of things out to be thrown out as garbage.
A netizen bought a house, and when he turned in the key, he found that the items in the room were very rich, including hundreds of books, dozens of photo albums, dozens of diaries, diplomas, award certificates, qualification certificates and other certificates and medals, as well as some calligraphy and painting tea sets. Everything seems to be the residence of a very cultured old intellectual. Ask the intermediary, it is really an old professor's house. I like calligraphy and painting, like photography and travel, and my children are abroad. After the death of the old professor, my children entrusted a domestic intermediary to sell the house. Things can't be taken away, and I don't want them, so I left them all in the house and let the new owner dispose of them. The new owner was really reluctant to throw it away. He chose some books, calligraphy and painting, and left an album for the old man. The rest went to the waste station.
I remember a few years ago, I saw an old man posting information on the Internet. When I am old, I have to go to a nursing home, and the house I live in has to be sold. Things in the house can't be brought into the nursing home, and my children don't want it, so I have to deal with it myself. A list of items that can be given away is listed, and I hope that people who need it will arrange a time to pick them up.
of course, life begins to do subtraction, and it is not a fuse at one time, and it all goes to zero. Instead, we should stop adding and start subtracting when it is full. First, we should subtract what is available and unnecessary, then we should subtract what is not used for a long time, and then we should make up our minds to subtract what is irrelevant to our lives. The less you reduce, the greater the reduction, the easier it is to reduce, and the less you care about it.
subtraction is not only a material separation, but also a common thought and a spiritual burden reduction. Less is simpler, less is more transparent, and finally you can become relaxed and free.