Good Morning!!

Over the weekend I did a clean install of Windows 10 on my personal computer.  The whole process was quite involved. I have three multi-terabyte hard drives in my computer so storage is not a problem. The problem is I have way too many useless things stored. As I looked through the files on the main drive, I had to decide what to keep and move it to another drive. And while looking where to logically paste the data I wanted to keep, I discovered old files and programs I’d put away where I wouldn’t forget them, then promptly forgot them. Hundreds if not thousands of files from the early 1990’s to 2010. Most the programs I’d kept do not work on modern machines, they are only memories. Hoarded, useless stuff that is part of the past. I have a small attachment to those old things, but found it mildly exhilarating to erase them, to clean house, dispose of baggage. What I learned from their use is mine already.

How exhilarating might it be if we could so easily do the same. Decide to do a clean install on ourselves and keep only what is truly needed. To search through our experiences and memories, unpacking all the baggage, taking all the meaningless, self-defeating attitudes and  opinions and erasing them. Wiping the memory of the event and leave only what we’d learned from the experience. Not an easy task at all. Some of those experiences and memories are near and dear to us. Some irreplaceable and essential to the character we’ve become, most just clutter that hides our true character, promoting the deception we are someone we’d rather be.

You are at your core, behind the fortress of stuff you use to hide, perfectly and exactly who you truly are. The small voice screaming at you from hidden places, while you try desperately to protect it from a world filled with threatening events caused by everyone else doing the exact same thing, is you. It is not a perfect you in a religious sense, but it is perfectly you in a living and breathing sense that is the summary of your entire life. You are the embodiment of every choice, every decision, every love, every tear, every laugh, every song, every desperate cry you have made, and every influence, - You.

What of all this that is you, will you keep as essentially and personally you? What is it that makes you great? Keep that. What is it that makes you happy?  Keep that. What is it you truly love. Keep that. Decide to do a clean install with an exhilarated you.

There is no longer anything behind holding you, there is only what is pulling you forward.

Have a magnificent week!