Peace Be to You
Nov. 8th, 2008 12:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ikyrianAfter watching a couple hours worth of The West Wing, I find myself narrating everything I read and write in President Bartlett's voice. It's very strange...soothing, but strange.
I threw out my one and only RMWC sweatshirt today. It was too small, ratty, helplessly stained, and it would have sat on my floor breeding carpet beetles if I didn't toss it out. I highly doubt I'll be able to obtain another one as pretty.
I'm currently going through all of my old things and tossing them out. I'm a packrat by nature and I hate to clean, but this is rather hard for me. If it weren't for the damn carpet beetles I wouldn't bother. But, as I started to pick things up, I noted that I was seeing more and more of them and I got really wigged out. Insanely glad I washed my sheets, but still wigged out. I kind of don't want to be sitting here right now.
I keep many things that I think are important or should be important even if I haven't figured out why yet. I keep things because it's easier than keeping friends. I moved seven times before I was in the fourth grade; I learned very early that it's much easier to keep things than people. But I also learned that in preparation for a move you need to pare down your stuff. Everything I toss has has some significance in my life, even if I can't remember exactly what it was. I keep a broken green and black porcelain pony my aunt gave me years ago because I can't yet bear to get rid of it even though I broke it almost three years ago now and there is no chance of fixing it.
On an even stranger note I had a decent political discussion with my mom today wherein we both agreed on a woman's right to choose but couldn't agree on gay marriage. I think if we keep having these discussions, which we probably won't, I could bring her around on that it's not right to limit people's freedom like that. Her stance on homosexuals has changed a lot in the past ten to fifteen years (she used to be hard core about the "homosexuality is wrong, it's immoral, it's not natural" stance) and I count that fact that she loosened up at a small victory.
There are, of course, other members of my family who I would never be able to convince. Hell, I wouldn't be able to have a rational, reasonable, informed discussion about abortion much less homosexuals. But that is a discussion for another day.
I threw out my one and only RMWC sweatshirt today. It was too small, ratty, helplessly stained, and it would have sat on my floor breeding carpet beetles if I didn't toss it out. I highly doubt I'll be able to obtain another one as pretty.
I'm currently going through all of my old things and tossing them out. I'm a packrat by nature and I hate to clean, but this is rather hard for me. If it weren't for the damn carpet beetles I wouldn't bother. But, as I started to pick things up, I noted that I was seeing more and more of them and I got really wigged out. Insanely glad I washed my sheets, but still wigged out. I kind of don't want to be sitting here right now.
I keep many things that I think are important or should be important even if I haven't figured out why yet. I keep things because it's easier than keeping friends. I moved seven times before I was in the fourth grade; I learned very early that it's much easier to keep things than people. But I also learned that in preparation for a move you need to pare down your stuff. Everything I toss has has some significance in my life, even if I can't remember exactly what it was. I keep a broken green and black porcelain pony my aunt gave me years ago because I can't yet bear to get rid of it even though I broke it almost three years ago now and there is no chance of fixing it.
On an even stranger note I had a decent political discussion with my mom today wherein we both agreed on a woman's right to choose but couldn't agree on gay marriage. I think if we keep having these discussions, which we probably won't, I could bring her around on that it's not right to limit people's freedom like that. Her stance on homosexuals has changed a lot in the past ten to fifteen years (she used to be hard core about the "homosexuality is wrong, it's immoral, it's not natural" stance) and I count that fact that she loosened up at a small victory.
There are, of course, other members of my family who I would never be able to convince. Hell, I wouldn't be able to have a rational, reasonable, informed discussion about abortion much less homosexuals. But that is a discussion for another day.
