Simplifying

I've really appreciated your thoughts here and on your personal blog as of late regarding cleaning out and simplifying your life. It's a tough thing for all of us to part with some of those pieces of our past. Recently we were doing a little cleaning out, which we now know was just the start of things to come, and I ran across a huge plastic bin of volleyball magazines that I was holding onto. As you'll remember, volleyball was a huge part of my life, particularly through high school and after. I ate, drank, and slept the sport and did all that I could to improve. I had so much fun doing it and, somewhere along the lines, began to identify myself through it. After gettting married and having children though, volleyball was forced to take a back seat. I still had my toe in the water and would get to play here and there but with a friend's decision not long ago have pretty much lost my opportunities to really get out and play. So when Erin dropped those magazines in front of me and suggested we pitch them, it was very tough. Those simple glossy magazines represented a period of my life that I was clinging to. It sounds so melodramatic but that is what things do to us sometimes. It's not always bad that we do that but more often that not, we begin to accumulate and live in the past rather than focus on the future.