Freeing myself: Putting whole life into one suitcase

For the past two years, I have had the urge to "put my whole life into one big suitcase".

I have been feeling very overwhelmed by the things I have. This may sound weird to some of you. We are living in a world in which we constantly collect things and then forget about them anyway.

I have never been a big fan of having many things, but in the past few years I have somehow collected a lot, depending on what phase of life I was in.

There was a time when I really needed a car to go to work every day, now I drive it once in two months. I own a lot of shoes too, that I don't actually wear. Some are too big or too small, which I honestly don't know how happened.

I have six or seven bags and have only been carrying two for the last year, my big laptop bag and my small one that I recently bought in China.

I have around 100 books, one third of those I haven't read and who knows if I ever will. Some I received as a gift, but many of those I bought.

So, I have decided to free myself from all of these. I love to imagine that I can put my whole life in one suitcase and just move on. It makes me feel very much free.

I know, I know, this is not a simple task, but I want to get as close to making it possible as I can.

The thing that is going to be the most difficult to do is selling my car, but I know it's the right thing to do. There are two reasons. My car is old and I am attached to it emotionally because it's my first car. The second reason is that I usually take a 30 minute walk to work, when I travel it's usually by plane and when I go to see my parents, I take the bus because I need to drive 6 hours to get to them. For me, that's a no. What can I do today? I can prepare all of the data necessary for selling it and send it to my friend. He will handle the rest

- Shoes and bags I am going to donate or throw away, depending on their state.

- And books... Here's the thing with books. I don't want to donate them. Maybe some of them I will gift away. Most of them, I will put into a box and take them to my parents' home. The reason I'm storing all of my books into a different place (which is something I'm very grateful to be able to do by the way) is because I have a dream of one day having my own study room in which one wall will be filled with books. I will leave just few that I really like.

What do you think about this?

Would you want to put your whole life into one suitcase?

Does it make you feel free or anxious?

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