One of the resolutions that I made, ten years ago, when I moved into my current home - a small flat - from a bigger home was  not to accumulate, not to crowd the space, to have more open spaces for easy of movement  and so on. Especially, when I had to make hard, even brutal, decisions to  discard stuff I had accumulated over the many years. But I am a collector of papers - newspaper articles, magazine articles, essays photocopied. I love reading and making copies for future reading and soon I was running out of space to store these papers.

The last time I tried to sort them out, two years ago, I ended re-reading them and I didn’t have the heart to throw them out. So I move them to under my bed!! And there they stayed for the last two years, collecting dust.

This year’s resultion is to de-clutter and I was determined and I wa equally determined not to push them over to another corner. This became an obssesion and as a result I have thrown away 5 trash bags of papers that I had collected over the last 40 years and some furniture and other bric-a-brac.

I feel good.This is one new year resolution that I have actually accomplished in many years!

But there is gnawing a fear that tomorrow I am going to need an article that I had just thrown away!!!

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