Letting Go

Letting go is easy; the hard part is not wanting to leave anything behind.

When I pack for a trip, it's hard to know exactly what I will need. I don't want to leave anything behind (even if it provides an excuse to go SHOPPING), because I just might need whatever it is that I left behind. This only leads to a very over packed suitcase! Boy, have I begrudgingly paid my share of $50 overweight fees at the airport check-in counter.

For the last year, I've tried to pack everything I could in my "cart." I've paid my share of emotional overweight fees, and wouldn't be surprised if Oprah showed up at my door to tape a show about hoarders. I've grown tired of trying to carry the excess and skirting around my cart trying to catch everything that falls loose. So, I started to just let the things that fell, fall. I'm also carefully removing, or simply shifting, positions of some things. My cart is doing less hopping and more gliding these days.

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