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When decluttering feels like losing your past self

I cleaned out my childhood bedroom at my parents' house and threw away journals from high school and now I feel like I erased someone who used to exist.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical objects become repositories for identity we fear to release.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist impermanence and time?”

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