Poop, I Have to Sell Stuff Again
Posted by Lindsey , Thursday, May 26, 2011 1:30 PM
"You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple of years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you."
---From Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club
This seems particularly relevant as I pack to move out of the country again. I told myself when I first moved from Ohio that I would never be so tied to a place again with material objects and now I have an apartment full of furniture to try to get rid of....things really do start to own you if you're not careful. I need to remind myself that the only truly essential things are not what you buy, but what you cultivate within yourself.
---From Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club
This seems particularly relevant as I pack to move out of the country again. I told myself when I first moved from Ohio that I would never be so tied to a place again with material objects and now I have an apartment full of furniture to try to get rid of....things really do start to own you if you're not careful. I need to remind myself that the only truly essential things are not what you buy, but what you cultivate within yourself.
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