I’ve been doing a general apartment cleaning, as I do periodically. If you’ve been through it, you know what it’s like.
You throw out lots and lots of things, and keep fewer things. I think it’s healthy for us to perform this ritual every once in a while. We change, and our stuff needs to change as well, in order to continue to be our stuff, rather than the stuff of some former version of us.
It can be tempting to focus on all of these objects that are suddenly no longer around. But that would be the wrong place to focus.
It’s not what you throw away that’s important. It’s what you keep.