It took me 5 days to completely finish cleaning my room and throwing out a lot of unwanted stuff. I found old love letters from boyfriends I forgot I had, old letters from pen pals and my old friends from school when we went off to university, gifts from various people that I had accumulated over the years, clothes that I forgot I had, etc. My spring cleaning sort of turned into a walk down memory lane.
Even so, I threw most of it away. Among others, I learnt on my travels that one does not need much at all to survive. I have also vowed not to buy unnecessary things anymore.
When I told some friends about this, they asked me whether I felt lighter. I don't. I can't miss something that I forgot I even had. I do, however, feel that I have become more practical; in throwing out unnecessary stuff, I also threw out nostalgia, romance and memories, good and bad, perhaps because I thought these things were, and are, also unnecessary.
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