Address Book Cleansing

Life cleansing continues at the address book is what I've discovered.  I have 100+ people in my address book.  Friends, family, co-workers, former co-workers, acquaintances.  As it turns out, there is a sixth category of person in there that I can see now clearly.  People who I want to love me and/or accept me but don't.

I was in the process of adding six names to my book of people who do accept and love me when I thought to myself, "Why am I holding on to these other names?"  These names represent people who, for one reason or another, have judged me to be not important in their lives or not someone they wish to know yet I have held on to their name symbolically.  As if doing so keeps us connected somehow.  To be clear, no one who reads my blog was removed from my list.  Not that that was a criteria for staying on it :), but if you do read it, we are connected.  Letting the names go today of people who don't want that connection with me was therapeutic.  Almost as therapeutic as adding the six new ones was.