Making the cut
I haven’t yet had a chance to come up with a formal list of all of my resolutions for this year, but lately I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about things that I can cut out of my life. There’s been a lot of talk about the information diet — and God knows I desperately need to go on one of those — but it shouldn’t just apply to information. I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that my life is full of extraneous crap, so this year my goal is to cut out as much of it as possible.
I came across this post where one Redditor shares their life lessons from 2011. The entire list is pretty good, but this point stuck out to me:
De-clutter your life. This includes material objects, things, and people. Throw shit away that you don’t need and only buy items you really want and need. Stop accumulating items that just take up space and are of no value. I’m going to say the same for people, too. Sometimes you need to filter the people in your life: those that are real friends in which you have a personal relationship versus those that just bring you down or get in the way. There shouldn’t be any real effort to maintain a friendship or relationship, it should flow. It’s okay to evolve and grow apart; you’ve probably already done it with relationships that you have and didn’t even know it. All you have to do is just to accept it. It makes a world of difference knowing you’ve put it behind you and can focus on bigger things.
