{"id":11645,"date":"2016-05-01T16:10:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T14:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/?p=11645"},"modified":"2016-05-01T16:10:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T14:10:53","slug":"fear-is-why-we-have-too-much-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/01\/fear-is-why-we-have-too-much-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear Is Why We Have Too Much Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ein toller (englischer)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/zenhabits.net\/stuff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artikel<\/a>\u00a0mit dem Titel: Angst ist der Grund, warum wir zu viele Dinge haben.<br \/>\nLeo Babauta f\u00fchrt unserer \u00dcberfluss auf das Angstgef\u00fchl zur\u00fcck.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You pack too much when you travel, and have a garage full of stuff, <em>just in case<\/em> you might need it. This is a fear that you might need something and not have it. It\u2019s <strong>fear of lack of safety and certainty<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>You buy a lot of things for an upcoming event or trip because you <em>don\u2019t know what you might need<\/em>. Your fear is that you\u2019ll be unprepared. Again, it\u2019s <strong>fear of lack of safety and certainty<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>You hold on to things you don\u2019t use anymore because you <em>might need it someday<\/em>. You probably won\u2019t, but you\u2019re really not sure. Again, it\u2019s <strong>fear of lack of safety and certainty<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>You keep books and other aspirational items (guitar you never learned, elliptical machine you don\u2019t use) because you hope you\u2019ll get to them someday, and letting go seems like a loss of hope. You fear not being the person you want to be. This is a <strong>fear of not being good enough<\/strong> as you are.<\/li>\n<li>You hold on to sentimental items, because you don\u2019t want to lose the memories, or because it means a lot. Really, you\u2019re afraid you will lose the love or relationship that these items represent (grandpa\u2019s jacket represents your loving relationship with him). You fear the loss of love. This is a <strong>fear that the love you have now is not good enough<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>You don\u2019t want to get rid of things because you paid a lot for them, and you fear that letting go would be a waste. Actually, if you\u2019re not using them, it\u2019s a waste to keep them. It\u2019s hard to say what the fear is here \u2026 but you likely fear that if the original purchase was a mistake, things might not turn out well in the future. This is a fear that the present moment won\u2019t turn out OK, or again, a <strong>fear of uncertainty<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>You keep a lot of clothes (or other similar items) because they\u2019re a means of self-expression for you \u2026 and getting rid of many of those clothes would feel like you\u2019re limiting your means of self-expression. You fear not having those options, not having the ability to be who you want to be. This is a <strong>fear that you\u2019re not good enough as you are<\/strong>, without those items.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>F\u00fcr mich stimmt nicht ganz alles, was er da schreibt. Aber der Ansatz ist spannend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ein toller (englischer)\u00a0Artikel\u00a0mit dem Titel: Angst ist der Grund, warum wir zu viele Dinge haben. Leo Babauta f\u00fchrt unserer \u00dcberfluss auf das Angstgef\u00fchl zur\u00fcck. You pack too much when you travel, and have a garage full of stuff, just in case you might need it. This is a fear that you might need something and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[768],"class_list":["post-11645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leben","tag-angst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11804,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645\/revisions\/11804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}