{"id":838,"date":"2015-11-27T13:33:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T20:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/?p=838"},"modified":"2015-11-27T13:33:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T20:33:37","slug":"taking-out-the-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/taking-out-the-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Out the Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"

I dedicated myself to getting rid of all my useless physical stuff earlier this year. I think now (though this could just be a symptom of general frustration) it\u2019s time to take out the mental trash.<\/p>\n

Desperate to come up with a blog post this week (because of course I waited until the last minute in the current state I\u2019m in), I went through my idea bin and found almost all of it crap. Every stray idea I had to write down, yet didn\u2019t feel compelled to elaborate on at the time, has less worth than a penny \u2013 that is, it took more resources to generate than it was worth. I took the time to write this crap down. Should I waste more time going through those ideas and deleting most of them? What\u2019s the point?<\/p>\n

I suppose writing the dumb ideas down in the first place helped me get them out of my system, so it saved my brain more energy than if I\u2019d let them idle in my mental parking lot. Going through them now has also been enlightening, because I can tally up how many ideas I turned into something worthwhile and how many lingered unformed because they\u2019re utter crap. I could work out a ratio of garbage to good ideas \u2013 and I don\u2019t know what the point would be other than making myself feel better.<\/p>\n

Going through my idea bin, chucking things out, feels as therapeutic as doing the same thing with physical junk. Maybe this is what the end of the year should be for. Why not? I spend way too much time feeling guilty over such compulsions, telling myself I\u2019m dicking around, when maybe I have this compulsion for a reason. I suppose, for a week (no more), I\u2019ll follow it and see where it goes. If I find my mind lighter after cleaning out my files, I\u2019ll consider it time well spent \u2013 and then get on with more constructive things. Stupid brain.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I dedicated myself to getting rid of all my useless physical stuff earlier this year. I think now (though this could just be a symptom of general frustration) it\u2019s time to take out the mental trash. Desperate to come up with a blog post this week (because of course I waited until the last minute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[15,48],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","tag-bullshittery","tag-stupid-brain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}