Double Blog post day again! And this one is truly a bonus feature… into my home!
So today I had a “revelation” of sorts come over me. I needed to clean up my life. Not only my life, but my home. Every time I walked into the condo it just felt overwhelming and dirty. Not that it really was… I think it was more of my mindset.
But because of the happenings of this week, I needed to not only clean my house – but I think also give myself a new perspective on life. Well. A new perspective happened… except I didn’t realize it was happening until about 8:30p. Oh yeah… I didn’t mention – I’m sitting at home, cleaning on a Friday night. I know I should have been out getting over the stupid boy that broke the date(s)… but cleaning was on the slate for the evening I guess.
I’m sure I mentioned it before… but I *loathe* vacuuming. It is one of the worst things in the world to me. I really don’t know why… but I just do not enjoy it. That being said, it’s probably a good thing that it really only takes about 20 solid minutes to vacuum everything in the condo REALLY well. Less if I just want to do a half-ass job. Which is most of the time to be honest.
Anyway… so I am REALLY cleaning tonight. Vacuuming everything – including moving the furniture to get into places that I (nor my former roomie) had vacuumed in sometime. Well, while I was doing all of this, I (on the spot) decided that I would move everything in my living room around. Yup. I didn’t go to the gym for a workout – I did my workout at home.
Here are the before & after’s of my living room… (before’s on left/after’s on right)
…what do you think? Keep the new or go back to the old???
(I know it’s really hard to get a good perspective from these little pictures. Sorry!!)
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So today I wore some clothes that did not fit right. One piece was too big, one piece too small. The problem was that the larger of the sizes was layered underneath the smaller fitting item. This not only caused problems with the way everything had to be tucked, but also caused other issues and by the end of my work day, I was sick of it. When I got home, I changed almost immediately.
Anyway… so why am I telling you about my issues with clothing today? It occurred to me while I was in my office that there are so many things that we try to keep in our lives because we want them to be the right “fit”. This could be anything from a good job, a friendship/relationship, pieces of clothing, types of food, or maybe even a habit that we’ve adapted into our lives.
Ultimately, as we grow and change, we become who we want to be… and fulfill the potential that we (as well as our family or friends) knew that we had in us. Sometimes (and maybe often during the journey in my case) we need to look on the inside and see if we are the right fit for ourselves.
As I think I’ve said on the blog before (this week maybe?)… a few years ago, I hid from the world – in almost every aspect of life. And really, I hid from myself. I thought I knew who I was… but really, I wanted to change into a different person. A person with an outgoing personality that had lots of friends. A person that everyone talked about. A person that was desired. The problem was that I didn’t think I had the right “fit” for my personality with the way I looked. I didn’t have the confidence. This not only held me back with my social life, but also (I believe) with my job aspirations and other desires for my life.
Obviously as I say “we” in much of this post… I really am preaching to myself. I have relationships that I need to work on… I have clothes that I *need* to give away, and I have issues with food yet that I NEED to work through as I work on this weight maintenance thing.
I need to finish finding the right “fit” for myself in all of these things…
…are you finding that you “fit” into your life the way that you want to?
