Lets imagine for a second a burning house. A massive structure of wood and cement perfectly burning before your eyes. Orange ambers and flaring wisps of destructive heat devouring everything it comes in contact with. Its a beautiful disaster of elements. However I failed to inform you that this house is your house. Your shrine of all your collectables through out your life.
You have 60 seconds, what do you grab? (assuming that no one is inside)
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After downsizing my life for the 3rd time this year, I returned home with 2 suitcases and a guitar. Having given away my car, my lease, A LOT of shoes and even more clothes I found myself sitting on the edge of my parents dock wondering what the point of this all was. I didn't really miss it nor could I recall any of the junk I actually gave away. After the fire I was left with clothes (which I needed), 2 pairs of shoes, pictures out of their frames and a guitar. I was a minimalist, thrifty, stripped, and all that I needed wasn't "stuff" it was so much more then the disposable or replaceable. When stripped naked the need for "stuff" was no longer important but what was even more crucial was my character and whom I surrounded myself with.
"You have everything you need and everything you want will come" he said to me. Now this person was yet another angel introduced during my journey. After my first round of angels sent me off at the airport this is where Randy enters from stage left. My mediating peace man, the Zen master, the calm force nature happy live in the moment at all times one and only. Ya I didn't need stuff oh no during the next week and a half I stripped down to nothing and mediated while calming my chatty mind.
The flaming house would of continued to burn to ashes, I would have watched it all go I was ok because my actual structure was the support of an unshakable bound. The kind that is actually real, the kind that lasts longer then the things in your house or the things that were once in mine. When I was burning I had a crew of firefighters putting out the fire.
So I wonder, what would you grab? What could you not live without? Would you run in or would you watch it burn?
And more importantly...
Who would you call first?
