simplicity

 I spent the weekend to help a frd packing her life away ......  5 years in Canada , countless of friendships ,  two broken hearts and many memories . She came to Canada with 2 suitcases ,  yet she has accumulated boxes and boxes of stuff + countless of emotional baggage ..... all evidence of past lives ...... but they were all one life .... her life .

Like my mom ,  I used to be a big hoarder  .  I kept everything ,  never throws anything away .  My room was full of stuff ,  everything from my first high school year book to my first income tax receipt .  

I used to think stuff is evidence of one's life , it is what one leave behind ,  a testament to the fact that you were alive , that you lived and were on this earth  ~ your very own artifacts .....  

But I don't think the same way anymore . As I grow older I tend to save all of my memories inside , in my heart .  I no longer keep a lot of material things .  I mean why bother ,  we're born with nothing , no clothes , no money , no memories and we’ll leave with nothing   ~  Ashes to ashes , we'll become nothing , decompose into the dirt and eaten by worms .

So why is it that some ppl need so much stuff ?  From my personal experience ,  stuff acts like a protection shied ,  it makes ppl feel safe , less naked and ppl would feel more comforting and secure to be surrounded by stuff....... But i do believe  some ppl , like me , as they get to some point in life ,  will finally realize stuff actually is a trap ,  it traps us in a never ending materialistic cycle .... a system that eats us inside out !!!