Monakhos

I just realized today that I think that Halloween might be my favorite holiday. Sure on Christmas you get presents and on Thanksgiving you get to eat lots of food, but Halloween is fun because (at least in my neighborhood) you get to see a bunch of little kids (less than 6) running around with their parents in fun costumes (not ghouls and goblins, but princesses and frogs and magicians) coming to your door asking for candy. It’s so much fun.

I’ve forgotten how it feels to take an objective look at one’s life and get rid of all the excess. All the junk that’s been cluttered up. Maybe it’s not always junk, but just stuff that’s never used. I cleaned out my office area at home last Sunday and felt really good. I’ve been cleaning a lot of my virtual junk recently too (extra RSS feeds, old files that I’ll never need again on my computer.) It’s very refreshing.

I always know the feeling I’ll get, so it’s surprising that I’m not better at it. I guess it’s just Mara manifest as laziness or procrastination. I need to work on that. There’s still a lot of clean up to do, but it’s feeling better already.