Spring Cleaning and Other Possible Mistakes
So earlier today it seemed somehow the right thing to do to continue a project in scrolling through the wasteland of once current computer files to determine one of three things: 1) What in the world is in a file named blank 1377, 2) is it anything that has even marginal value now? And 3)what can it teach me about things I think are so important at one moment and then at some other moment make me shake my head?
After sorting through about 30 files it became evident that each one seemed pretty important at the time they were created and it seemed okay to “save.” Some of the files deserved a “real” name so that it would be possible to find them in the digital junkyard on this computer and a few were prompts for crappy memories that important or not needed to be sent to the place where half your socks go when you do laundry. Face it we don’t know where those socks go and you don’t know where those files really go—-perhaps in Area 51 there’s a huge warehouse where the government trades socks to some ancient race of aliens for insights on how to become more inefficient in finding reasonable people to run for elected office?
Nonetheless, a few files were sorted through and. Became a “history” of sorts. There were some files/events that highlighted great moments—some documents about children getting accepted to college for example, there were some job/work related documents mostly drafts of things that were concerns about events that never happened or didn’t happen as predicted, and there were a couple of documents that inspired thoughts about how to spend some time in the future (and served as a reminder that there is no future—there is only now).
There was a song lyrics file part of which will be shared below. In short it seems all this pile of electronic data forms some sort of history of everyday events real and imagined. Looking back upon these “events”provides some food for current learning (again see the song lyrics below). It also prompted some wondering about the value of “spring cleaning”.
Do we get rid of some things because, although they have value they remind us that we haven’t made the changes we were thinking of and therefore there’s no real place for this or that object? Does Spring Cleaning remind us that we often use energy in ways that unintentionally leave tiny piles of stuff that we move around about a thousand times because we never quite. Had time to change in the first place? Which leads to the question—do we just clean it now or do we get angry with ourselves and get overwhelmed and say “well we cleaned up 30 files, we took a shot at one of those cupboards etc..? Or perhaps did we conclude ‘what kind of experimental change in actions will it take so that these. Little piles aren’t here next Spring?” It seems the third response won’t leave us thinking about the “mistakes and flaws that might have left us cleaning today and feeling sort of awful about the day when that little mess started. For in the end every single day has events that seem horrible, seem triumphant, and seem to leave a lot to be decided at some point in the future. April 12th for example is the day the U.S. Civil War started and that happened because of a mess and left a. Mess we are probably still cleaning up. The pharmaceutical cure for Polio was deemed safe and became a method for diminishing the impact of that disease. So looking at those two things—one caused a lot of grief and one prevented a lot. Also the Russians/soviets sent a man into space on this date and this event spawned all kinds of scientific efforts like makingTang grabbing some rocks from the moon, and providing speculation for conspiracy theories galore.
The point here I that things happen—some good, some not, and in the case of space…we’re just getting started. Almost everything that we remember will go through some “Spring Cleaning “ Spiritually anyway and as long as we focus on the current status of the “cleanness or the lesson of the mess and the ability to use decisions to change—well we can avoid feeling the mistakes last forever and that is a valuable part in seeking peace and joy. Life changes.. it’s Spring.. Clean a Little.. and Remember. (Song Lyrics)
The wiser I get the more that I’ve found
My body just carries my spirit around
And there’s a new circus around every turn
The best thing to do is pay attention and learn
And pass all these lesson to the next travelers by
Try to enjoy life and understand why
But if why eludes you don’t wallow in frets
Don’t let your butterfly wings get weighed down with regrets and
Breathe and stretch and dance your own dance
And laugh and smile when life gives you a chance
There’s more to this song, however , it seems appropriate to offer some additional lyrics from a song that I modified (thank you Mac and Reha) way back in 2013 this is the very long chorus
Life is a set of changes
From time to time they will rearrange us
Sweep us between safe and dangerous
As the wheel of fortune spins to name us
Cracks our lenses then reframes us
We can walk with saints but no one’s blameless
We can take the raindrop and make the golden ray
Take the magic from the moonlight bring it to the light of day
Find each and every promise lying out there in the fray—
But when we can’t we must make peace with the fact my friend
That life is just that way.
Hey… what’s this under the couch? Part of a candy cane?
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