Emotional clutter can be just as negative as actually physical clutter. It’s when you hold on to feelings like anger, jealousy, envy, and blame. All of these emotions can keep you from experiencing a life of enjoyment and fulfillment.
Let’s say you are constantly looking at Instagram and all the wonderful lives of those perfect pictures. You see friends on vacation, the perfect organized homes, the families with happy smiling children and you compare it to your life. Perhaps your children fight, the items in your home seem to have a mind of their own sprawled out the moment you pick them up, and the last time you went on a “real” vacation was, well you’re not sure.
What this does is keep you longing for what you don’t have rather than gratitude for what you do. It keeps your mind focused on a life you wish you had rather than loving and caring for the one you do. It makes a wonderful person become envious and often angry at mistakes they may have made in the past that could have given them something better or what they think is better. Either way it’s detrimental to a happy life.
The same is true for the other emotional baggage we may carry, it keeps us in a state of past mistakes or a longing for a different future. It’s time now to let go, forgive, and enjoy the life one beautiful life you were given.
Have a wonderful week.
As you better yourself, you better the world
What a great post and a great reminder! I never realized that I was the cause of so much of my own unhappiness when I used to spend time on Facebook scrolling through the feeds of hundreds of “friends” I barely knew, idealizing their lives. Nobody has a picture perfect life, not even the people with the perfect looking pictures. It takes real courage and vulnerability to show the less-than-perfect pictures of our messy lives, so maybe the people who only share perfect pictures on the internet have much more they are hiding. That’s not the wholehearted life that I’m aiming for. I want the real thing. So, I got rid of my social media, and when I start comparing myself to some pictured ideal, I try to catch myself and remind myself of the beauty in the mess. I’m finding that I’m much happier this way!
WOW!!
Lulu, I haven’t had a change to get on site until now and saw your response. Well said.
I love that you were able to get rid of your social media.