Clutter

It’s amazing how easy it is to find yourself among heaping piles of clutter. Just when you think you’ve cleaned up and organized your life, the next day you look around and all you see is stuff. How do we accumulate so much in such a short period of time? 

Many times it’s not just the stuff, the material things we constantly acquire, but our commitments seem to pile up as well. The holiday season always seem to be this way for me. You start out around mid-November all excited about seeing your family and getting into the Christmas spirit. By mid-December you’re freaking out about all the holiday parties and get-togethers, what you need to bring for each, shopping for the perfect Christmas present and making plans for New Year’s Eve. And here it is January 7^th and I still feel overwhelmed with commitments I’ve made. Starting next Tuesday I’ll begin the Ministry of Mothers Sharing (MOMs) meetings, which meet 7-9pm every Tuesday until mid-March. This is when I start wondering, why do I do this to myself? Why do I constantly commit to another event or group or get together when I am already overwhelmed? My schedule makes my brain cluttered. I know that the meetings will be beneficial to me, but all I can see right now is over-commitment.

On top of all this, I’ve realized how much time I was spending online with social media – Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, whatever. It was too much. I’m following several other people’s lead – I’m taking a break. I will check Facebook and Twitter maybe once a day. I will refrain from posting constantly and acting like social media is the primary method of communicating with my friends. As ridiculous as it sounds, social media is cluttering up my life.  

                         

Winter cleaning commences now.