A Space to Breathe in

Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

Have you ever felt the pressure of getting crushed under the burden of your own thoughts and emotions? Yes, that is where the biggest clutter of life forms in the form of unpleasantness, right there in the middle of the mind.



That is what I believe, because there was a period of time where I started to have a bit of an issue in the form of anxiety, I felt like a tall mountain of negative thoughts stood in front of me shaking from time to time making it clear that it could fall anytime. Luckily thanks to my wonderful family and also some credit to myself for bringing some positive changes in life, the mountain disappeared to give way to the light that it was not allowing to reach me.



Mr Bhagat was one such man I have known who was living with such clutter in mind, although I did not know it until it was too late. Some people say he was in the army, I never asked but I knew at some point of time in life he took up wrestling as a hobby which was evident by his tall and strong structure even in his fifties.



Mr Bhagat used to run a lighting store. It had a variety of designer lights and bulbs of all sorts. The glow that flowed out from the front glass of the store late in the evening made every passerby’s head turn at least once. I still remember staring at the ceiling at those beautiful chandeliers and pendant lights. I thought it was all bright and positive for Mr Bhagat.



But one evening the store did not glow and that was just the first of endless evenings of similar type. The shopkeepers around said he committed suicide. I roughly knew where he lived but not exactly and no one answered his number and I kept trying once in a while until it was out of use.



I always thought he had the best kind of life; his wife would also come to the store many times and from what I could see they had a good bond. So, what exactly drove this person to his end, I will never know, maybe something was eating away at his mind from inside, maybe his mountain of cluttered negativity fell down upon him.



My paternal grandfather used to say keeping the mind free is a key to peace of many forms, it not only creates space for new thoughts and experiences but most importantly lets the bad ones out as well. Something I later termed as decluttering for that exact feeling that you get when you are done cleaning a cluttered room and you look back with a feeling of positive satisfaction. 


Written by Anuran Chatterji

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