The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up

So I read this book called 怦然心动的人生整理魔法.

I don't really know how to translate the title into English with my poor language. So I googled online and found out its English title is The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up. Unfortunately, the English title is so not as magical as the Chinese one. The essence lies in "怦然心动", which means your heart flutters when touching something and that is something you should keep. The fundamental part of "tidying up" is "throwing away", or more accurately, only keeping things that make your heart beat faster or lost a beat, whatever suits you.

I am slowly buying into this idea. I am always a keeper, my husband is even more of a keeper than me, so even through we don't necessarily buy a lot of stuff, but our house are cluttered with stuff everywhere. We keep the packaging of our 3-year old rice-cooker, if you are wondering.

This book will ignite a spark in you and make you want to throw everything away, which can only be stopped by ... your keeper husband. I've started by quietly throwing my unworn clothing away, and only keep thing that I really like. This process is so addicting, (now I can finally understand why the author said she is addicted to tidying up), and even though I have finished the process one week ago, I am still inspecting my closet everyday while I am brushing my teeth to see if anything more can be thrown away.

In the end, this is not just about tidying up to me, this is more about, living in a minimalism lifestyle, and living in now, which is what I always wanted. Thanks to my bad memory or bad lifestyle, I always cannot remember those little sweet, touching, blessed moments of life. My life is like water, flows by me, and leaves nothing. I want to clear my closet, my kitchen, my house, my eyes, and my memory, re-take life in to its fullest, and not to be hindered by things that do not really matter.