Epilogue.
What Really Matters.
Now that you're at the end,
Welcome to the beginning.
This is the start of a new life,
One in which you start to really value yourself.
Ultimately,
It is your life to enjoy.
It is up to you.
What do you have otherwise?
A house or apartment that you dread coming home to?
A life not worth waking up to in the morning?
There is no value in things.
The value is in you.
You don't need anything.
You alone are enough.
You know now that you were mistakenly taught otherwise.
You now know what really matters.
There is a true story about a woman who was working at the World Trade Center when it was struck by terrorists.
She ran out of the office with a friend.
When they got to the stairwell,
She said she had to go back to her desk and get her little girl's picture.
She never returned.
She went back for a thing,
A representation of something that mattered to her.
How could she have done otherwise?
We are all trained to act this way.
We have been living this way for most of our lives.
To live peacefully and happily,
Honestly look at what you have and ask,
What matters?
What do I really need?
What is worthless to me now?
Keep what matters,
Toss what doesn't.
It's easy once you start.
I tell people if I can do it,
So can you.
My life used to be a mess,
But then I cleaned it up.
I found I enjoy my life in simplicity.
I have more fun than I used to when I had so many things but felt confused and unsatisfied.
Everyone's clutter-busting story is different.
Yours will be too.
You will find yourself laughing at some of the things you have held onto.
You might cry.
You will feel joy in tossing things that do not matter to you anymore.
You are making room for yourself.
In the end,
You will feel freedom,
The kind you have been wanting all along.
Happy clutter-busting!
