We are born without possessions. We don’t even understand possessions until we are a couple of years old, and then it’s “I want,” anything and everything in our surroundings. Now that I’ve just written that, it occurs to me, we don’t ever truly grow out of that do we?
I’m happy with my possessions, but there’s always a little something else I could justify as a want, or a need. There’s always some little something we’d like to have for multitudes of reasons, be it small, or be it large, or in between.
But to answer the question, the answer is simply, start over.
People lose everything all the time. Fires, hurricanes, floods, tornados, the tax man, or for some unlucky folks, prison. The only logical path is to start over. It is the natural way I think. We build from scratch and get back on our feet, no matter the reason.
It’s as inevitable as the sun rising tomorrow. It’s what we do.
I would know no other way. I might not get back to where I was, but I’d work to improve somehow, some way. Only having to actually do it, will determine how it pans out.
Just not right now ok? I’d like to enjoy what we have for a while yet.
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You have said it well. Where does one begin in the starting over? Take a worst case scenario where you don’t even have insurance
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Starting over isn’t easy. But the only way is forward. However you have to do that, it’s what you do.
Friend of mine going through a nasty divorce right now. Had to get a place, furniture, kitchen stuff, bedroom stuff, and stuff stuff.
His ex is using their kid as a weapon. Threatening to move 6 hours away. She changed terms from uncontested to contested. She is using every dirty tactic she can think of.
My friend is having a rough go of of it. But he has to move forward. There’s no going backwards, and there’s no way you can just stop.
Well I guess you could, but that’s just allowing things to get worse…
All you can do in any situation where all is lost, is do whatever the hell you have to do.
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I agree, starting over is the only recourse
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I have been thinking about this for some time. I suggest that we all have lost almost all of our possessions several times. If I think back 50 years (to when I was 27), I have very, very few possessions from that time. I have given away most of my tools, most of my books, and replace most of my furniture, etc. Almost all of my clothes from that time are gone (they wouldn’t fit anyway), and so on. I have a few mementos: my stirrup socks from college basketball, a few pieces of “art,” scrapbooks, etc. but really only a tiny fraction of my sum total of possessions from that time.
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I literally have nothing from my younger years. I was moved all over 3 states, and could only carry whatever would fit in the stowaway panel of a big truck.
It wasn’t until I managed to put my roots down, I was able to acquire much of anything…
Now I have more shit than I know what to do with. But I have most everything I need, to do the things I do, so I guess that’s all that matters.
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