Hello!
Well it's Simon here again. Our Tracy has been moving house and it's fallen to me to write the weekly newsletter. I think I got the easy option. Moving house can be grueling. I once read a fascinating newspaper article once that placed moving home as one of the most stressful activity in life - right up there with losing a job!
It's also startling to see how much you have accumulated over the years. Not that I haven't served my own moving time recently. A few months back I went to England to clear out my apartment and move ten years of my life back to South Africa. Like a fool I thought it'd take a few days. Ha. Eight very full and stressful days later the guys in the van drove off with all my boxes for the shipping depot. Well, I say all my boxes. Most of my boxes is more accurate. Most.
The thing is - due to a rather convoluted story best left for another day - it turned out that almost half of all my possessions where lost in the previous move.
Half.
Five. Years. Ago.
And it took until this year for me to find out. Think about that. I was just finding out now that I had lost many of the supposedly most important things in my life that I thought were safely in storage in the UK.
Sad days indeed. But the truth is that the distance between the loss and being able to do anything about it was kind of a blessing in the end. Was I very upset about the loss? You bet. Could I do anything about it? Nope. And the deepest irony of all: I had lived for five years without these things already. How could I genuinely make a case for how crucial they were to my life, really?
The people who were responsible for the loss where long long gone, as was my stuff. By getting upset I was expending energy fighting ghosts about long gone things that I simply couldn't change. So I allowed myself to be mad for a day or so. Then I was sad for a day more beyond that. And then I let it go. Moving is tough enough without adding loss to the equation.
The moral of the story? Don't wait until you move to find (or not find!) stuff that means something to you. If you have anything precious to you that would bring you joy, go get it, and use it every day. Do yourself a favour and bring it into your life again. Things are there to be enjoyed.
You can thank me later. :)
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Simon
P.S. I couldn't resist. These are my fiance's lovely guinea pigs (Twiggy on the left, and Petal on the right. Cute, right? :)
