One area that stands out for the abundance of old rules is "keeping and organizing the disorganization". At a brink of my life I felt careworn in a collection of boxes and boxes and bags and bags of stuff! Call it "In Case if I need it". Going back to my childhood, I reminisce how my father saved every little piece of colored paper “You might need it for your homework" he will say. The reality is that those words wedged in my brain and it was painful and still is sometimes to discard things that may be useful in the future. Living a future in a past and a present, I was not able to predict the future however I was “prepared" for it. I was crammed for an uncertain future. Seven years ago, I met a woman who modeled emotional detachment of things and stuff. She has been moving from city to…show more content… Long time took to get set free of a few things. My ADHD diagnosis and its challenges instigated me to take an organizing workshop, it was when I really started thinking what a hindrance was to keep boxes and boxes of superfluous stuff which was cause of more chaos than the sense of security, and it was supposed to give me. Then and there, it was painful to see how I was controlled by my emotions and they were going to the pile of the Salvation Army, where it was adding height to the pile of stuff at the Salvation Army. Conversely I found a nonprofit organization that took really good care of all “my stuff” with the purpose of helping those that were disorganized and unsafe, drogaddicts. This lovely lady, with chaotic crazy hair, as it was my life with so much stuff, meticulously cleaned and displayed with respect each item, in a nice way. The hurt of giving my surplus was alleviated and the detachment eased. It was noble and reflecting how keeping things in the present can impair much more than what they were kept for. After purging and sorting “things “and giving it for a good cause, my burden is lightened. I like how it feels; amending old rules unshackles harmony and
