The beauty of a junk drawer is that you can find lots of little treasures and things you've missed without really knowing you've missed them until you find them again.There is also lots of "junk" to be sorted through, which is usually why junk drawers stay so junky for so long. The junky part sucks. It seems extremely overwhelming when you first pull that drawer open. There's no order to any of it, and it's so much easier (for that brief moment) to sift through all of it real quick to get the paper clip or safety pin that you just KNOW is in there.
See, but the problem is that when you need something out of that drawer and you start searching, there's all this other shit in the way, and you end up getting so frustrated that the sifting becomes shoving and the shoving becomes slamming, and you can't even focus on finding that thing anymore because you've become preoccupied with all the junk. At your time of need, the time you needed that very handy, necessary, useful item...it was lost among all the junk.
It feels good to dump it all out in front of you, and get to work on it. At the end of the organizing, and throwing away, and the joyful smiles, those seemingly lost gems bring to your face, you have a beautiful thing again. The shitty part is that no matter how long you keep it lookin' nice, the junk starts to accumulate. The trick is to clear out the junk often enough, so it doesn't overwhelm you the next time.
(Romans 12:2)
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