We are settled in to a pleasant campground, with nice folks around, tall trees and generous spaces for parking your portable "home" and vehicles. Always the optimist, my belief in the ease of transition might have been a bit over enthusiastic. Not to mention my guess-timation of the amount of stuff that trailer dwellers can stow away and still have room to live...actually room to breathe. From re-learning how to walk sideways nearly everywhere you move to the spending hours looking for things that you did tuck away (not always in the most logical place), the change from house living to small and simple is a huge one. I admit, I've had some very doubtful days...what the hell have I done?!
Amazingly, it's getting better, we're feeling more at home. After all, life is so much about our patterns and routines. No matter where you are, you begin to form new routines. Logical or not, you get familiar with where things are. You get things arranged like it works for you. As we are getting our final utility bills paid, the ones we'll not have to pay anymore...as we sit in our lawn chairs and watch the campground staff mowing the grass...as we remember maintenance and upkeep that will no longer be our job, we're beginning to enjoy the idea of this simpler life style.
The truth is, for most of us, our lives of today are basically big and complicated. The giving up of some of that isn't the easiest surrender. It can however, be extremely rewarding and freeing. I'm already spotting things that I thought I just had to keep, hold on to and asking myself, "why in the heck did I think I needed that?" More things will go to the Goodwill, before we store the trailer for the summer. The clutter and excess of our lives is slowly shrinking and we are feeling lighter and excited to be paring down. With our comforts and basics, life may not be totally simple but it is definitely smaller. More to come, JO
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