The issue of how much luggage to take on a flight used to be centered on only one point - do I want to check or just do carry-on? But all that has changed. The question now centers around how much luggage am I willing to pay for on the flight? Suddenly, we have all become interested in how much we can cram into one small carry-on bag.
But none of this is really new. We have all be paying extra for storage for a long time - even though it may not have been on an airplane. Consider our houses - after filling our closets and the space under the beds, most of us have floored the attic, moved cars out of the garage, added storage sheds in the backyard, and even rented extra space at self storage businesses.
My father-in-law has always taken most everything he owns in the trunk of his car for a road trip and still proclaimed - there's plenty more room in there. Well, that has not been my case. I always yield to my wife. She can make so much more fit in any space than I possibly can.
But then there is one other dimension that gets over looked. In terms of daily, weekly, monthly, and even annual activities - how much can I fit into my life? The truth is that most of us seem to want everything and therefore only rarely deny ourselves anything. But there are only so much time in a day; only so many dollars in a bank account; and only so much energy in a person. One of the hardest things is to maintain a schedule and involvement level that allows participation in the best and says no to the rest. Maybe this hot summer month of July is a good time for me, and maybe some others, to rebalance the schedule and do a better job of leaving some breathing room in this living luggage.
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