Object Eraser
Because of my love for Kdramas, I decided to take a trip to Korea. I did all the touristy stuff and my tour guide brought me to this beautiful garden. It was called The Garden of Morning Calm. I walked around taking pictures of the surroundings and then I saw this beautiful tree. I guess I’m not the only person who appreciated this tree. There were many tourists lining up to take a picture with the tree. Because I was already keen to move on to my next destination, I ended up taking a picture of the tree with the tourists.
As part my “documentation” of my trip. I started to edit some of the pictures and by the way, my idea of editing a picture is just resizing them. I suddenly saw “object eraser” as a function I could take advantage of in the app on my mobile phone. It said click on the object that you want removed. I did just that and voila, the tourists were removed and I was happy to see the beautiful tree in its full glory. (See tree above.)
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How lovely it is to be able to delete all the unwanted things and people in your life.
At this point in my life, I am deliberately editing and keeping the people and materials things that continue to be relevant to me.
For materials things, I’ve started to unload and do away with things I don’t need. There are times I can’t even remember why I bought a certain item. I’ve given them away to people who will appreciate them better. I have realized that material things weigh me down so I have tried to do as much spring cleaning to only keep those that I still need in my life. Only needs less wants.
For people, I have had my fair share on “deleting” people in my life. There are people who just always have negative vibes and they consume my time and energy. During my younger days, I would be more tolerant of them. Once I made the decision to cut off these people, my life was better. No more complaints or negative energy. I consider them to be good decisions for my overall mental health.
This beautiful tree did not become what it is today without constant pruning. I believe we need to do our own self decluttering and pruning to remove the things or people that don’t matter to us anymore. Try it to see if it can ease some of the burden you are carrying today. Only then can we live lightly. Once all the unnecessary baggage is gone, then our true beauty will unfold.
