Clean Sweep
When I was in college, I used to watch Figure Skating obsessively. I would record all of it and plan my weekends around them. I should also note that I didn't socialize much in college. I'd see my high school friends once in a while, but most of my time was spent working or just sitting around and feeling depressed. Watching figure skating was good, since it did make me happy. However, the way I would tape all of it and save all of it was very compulsive, which is how I get sometimes when I'm not careful. This whole mentality also happened with the toy and doll collecting. I'm glad I'm better now and able to not fall into that pattern. That time in my life was very sad, since it was before I came out, and felt very lonely and lost. So yesterday, I threw out all of those figure skating tapes. I saved the Olympics and some ones I wanted to keep, but most of them all went out. It was a big box of them and along with the figure skating tapes, I got rid of some cartoons and tv shows that I used to record. Again, I haven't watched them in years, so there was no point in keeping them. It felt good. Not just to make more room in my apartment, but to get rid of something that dealt with a very sad part of my life.