Mike’s Daily Drive: The Things We Carry

This publish “The Things We Carry” was initially revealed inside Mike’s RV Community. It’s a beautiful place to get to know different RVers by on-line occasions and in-person mini-meetups and rallies. Take a glance right here:

One of the sudden presents of getting older is studying the distinction between what issues and what merely takes up house.

That thought crossed my thoughts this weekend as I wandered by our RV, placing a couple of issues away after our final journey. I discovered a drawer stuffed with “just in case” devices that have not seen daylight in years. Extra cables for gadgets we now not personal. Specialty instruments I used to be satisfied I’d want sometime. A flashlight that hasn’t labored since who is aware of when.

We all do it. We carry issues as a result of we’d want them. But the longer I’ve traveled, the extra I’ve realized the identical factor is true in life.

That thought got here to me from my weekend e mail. A protracted, unhappy story of anger and disappointment from an RV proprietor who as soon as bought taken by a scoundrel of an RV vendor. It occurred years in the past. Two RVs in the past for him. But he simply cannot let it go and has transferred that anger to each RV vendor in every single place, as if one was dangerous, all of them have to be dangerous.

As I learn his e mail, I considered eliminating issues I now not want within the RV. For all of us…. Maybe it isn’t simply issues we have to let go of.

The Things We Carry

We carry previous disappointments. Old arguments. Regrets over choices we won’t undo. Worries about issues that most likely aren’t going to occur. We drag them from campground to campground, season to season, 12 months to 12 months. They take up house, too.

The lovely factor concerning the RV way of life is that it always reminds us to simplify. Every pound issues. Every storage compartment has limits. Eventually, you attain the purpose the place one thing has to go earlier than one thing new can are available. Maybe our hearts work the identical means.

Perhaps this week is an effective time to let go of 1 factor you’ve got been carrying that now not serves you. An previous grudge. A nagging concern. The feeling that you simply’re in some way operating out of time. Because you are not.

As lengthy as you are still curious sufficient to take the subsequent journey, watch the subsequent dawn, or pull right into a campground you’ve got by no means visited earlier than, there’s nonetheless one other chapter ready to be written.

Travel has taught me that life’s richest reminiscences do not come from the issues we pack. They come from the experiences we make after we arrive. So immediately, perhaps unpack one thing you do not want anymore. It would possibly simply make room for one thing great.