As I am unpacking my new home, I am struck by how much of the last decade of my life has been lived in a state of temporary-ness. That is, everything was half packed, always ready to pick up and go, items were always in plastic tubs ready to be moved. Now, I am going through my new home and realizing that I can set down roots. I can unpack.
This changes my mental state too.
As I place items on closet shelves, I am emptying plastic tubs. I am establishing, “here I will stay.” As each item finds a home, so do I. I find my place as I create space for my possessions. As I unpack these items and leave them out for the eye to see, I am saying hello to those possessions that have meaning to me and I am giving them new life and new purpose.
It is an interesting change of energy for me, as I realize the life I have created. Particularly as I have spent a few years getting rid of items, determining what brings me joy and what no longer serves me, seeing those items that have been chosen to stay with me and serve me in this new phase of life provides them even more special meaning.
As I touch the items that have been gifts from family and friends, I am filled with love, especially from items that were from those no longer in my life and those whom I miss. As I expand into this grand space I have been made the caretaker of, I expand in my heart and mind.
It is a good thing to grow. It is a good thing to expand, so as to grow wings and fly into a more peaceful, a more grounded, and a less temporary state of being.
