hoarding and overconsumption
“There’s a profound reassurance in the permanent mountain of stuff. Through the decases, the pile abides, adding layer upon layer like a packrat midden, impervious to change or transition or trauma. Your mother may die. The love of your life may move away to Vancouver and never call you anymore. Cancer, coronaries, Covid or cholesterol may claim
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One morning in January, I woke up and it was like a spell had been broken the way I looked around my room and saw how dull everything was, not because it was lacking but because of how full it was of stuff.
Stuff I didn’t particularly love. Stuff with no serious meaning to it. Stuff I didn’t care about. Stuff that, if... See more
I must have thought something was really important if it warranted saving. If you put all of my memorabilia and artifacts together, you would get the most accurate story of who I was and what I valued at any one point in my life. And you’d probably need no more than a standard issue dining room table to lay it out.
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
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