Ok, so reading that now looks a little dramatic, but I just finished watching Into the Wild. Obviously, it's pretty extreme, but this guy did all the things I'm thinking about. Let go of everything. He even gave away all his money to charity.
That line in the subject came when he was talking to an old man, who lost his wife and kid 30 years earlier, and spent his time doing leather work in his garage. He seemed pretty satisfied with it, but really, is that how to live out your life? My Life? I could so easily see myself doing that. In the woodworking shop, playing xbox, surfing the web. Alone isn't how to live. And keeping myself in things is not going to help me break away.
It's amazing to see that I have gone through many of my things, and to see all of the things that I left! Why did I decide to keep the stuff that I didn't get rid of? Because it had value? Had! I'm done with it. Get rid of it. Get rid of everything. If you need some of it back, go get it when you need it. Holding onto it now is not going to make anything better. I can't even find the stuff I want now. What good is it on a shelf?
I'm not going to Alaska, but I'm going somewhere. I'm not sitting here in front of this damned computer forever. Something is going to change, and it's going to be big. It might not be fast, but it will be big.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
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