"I think I help these people, but I don’t know about saving their relationships. I do help people get on the right path. Will they stay there or not? I don’t know. But I definitely lay the foundation and give them a wonderful place to start."
—Niecy Nash, Instinct Magazine link
While researching the Dalai Lama and Alexander McCall Smith, I found myself thinking about another guru of our time: Niecy Nash of the Style Network's Clean House.
Niecy counsels countless individuals on how to "Stop all this mayhem and foolishness!" Whole episodes are spent with Niecy and co-stars Mark Brunetz, Matt Iseman and Trish Suhr trying hard to wrassle away all the nonsensical clutter that keeps the residents in a constant state of chaos.
The kicker, clearly viewable by the TV audience each show, is that the people who live in the house know that they will get all kinds of new furnishings and a new, improved interior design if they just let go. Invariably there is still a tug-of-war over small, seemingly insignificant items of "sentimental value" that end up junking up the whole house.
Well, sorry to say, but I need Niecy to come to me and say, "Girl, take me to your foolishness."
If she did, we wouldn't go straight to my house. There's plenty of mayhem there, too, but this pales in comparison to the nonsense I stubbornly cling to in my head.
If I could somehow just let go of my pre-conceived notions of who I am and what I need to be and where I need to head I, too, could clean house, take a break and go to a nice hotel for a while, and then come back to a whole new life. A new start on the right path.
2 comments:
Very provocative. Cultural Catholic that I am--I've decided to focus this Lenten season on the following mantra "let go of self-doubt". Why bother giving up chocolate when what really sets me back is doubt.
It's all in there -- repetitive and fleeting: sometimes like a frog (hopping about) and other times like a caged tiger pacing back/forth. Observe it. Feel it. Laugh at it. And then go wash the dishes.
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