Things pile up over life. And they are hard to get rid of. Each little thing you pick up and bring home. Each little thing you order for some convenience or small idea. It stacks and stacks. Projects you fantasize about and keep the physical things for. If you are on the spectrum or ADHD adjacent, or you have a difficult to impossible time separating your emotions in a moment of time to a physical thing, this stacking is two-fold, or possibly ten-fold. If you have physical or mental health issues (or both) later in life and all these things are around you, it is both a physical burden and an emotional burden. Getting rid of these things is hard. The "moments" we used to live in not only have emotional and memory baggage, but physical literal baggage as well. It is daunting to deal with as we age, and if we have children it is daunting for them if it hasn't been dealt with after we die. I read about Swedish Death Cleaning a while back and I think to simplify my life I sort of inadvertently starting practicing it. It is forcing me to reevaluate my relationship with not only the things, but my emotional attachment to the things. But also to face parts of myself that are uncomfortable to face: failed potential. Pieces of projects. Hopes for projects. Things set aside for "One day I'll make a project of this." that simply... are never going to be those projects because that person doesn't actually exist. It is a hard thing to do to look at one's self and say "You think this is who you are, but it isn't." Things, items, objects in space, are just "things" on one hand, but on the other hand they are very powerful reminders of not only times we want to remember or things we used to do, but also of times we thought we would have and things we thought we would do but which we never lived up to. To discard the thing, the item, the object of potential, is to discard hope for ourself of being a different person with more drive, enthusiasm, intelligence, organizational skills, etc.
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