Packing for the move to Japan was much harder than I anticipated.
Maybe because I feel like it has been happening since we moved out of our apartment
in May. In reality our lives have been quite transient since then. Finally putting
every item I will need for the next 2 (or more) years in a suitcase gave me unexpected closure
to the “up in the air” lives I feel like we have been living.
After carefully choosing items, arranging, organizing,
stuffing, repacking and weighing my bags I ended up with 140lbs of stuff
crammed into three suitcases and a backpack. This stuff is all I am taking with
me from Colorado to LIVE in Japan. On one hand it doesn't seem like enough
stuff. My belongings roughly equal my weight?!?! On the other hand it is
weirdly freeing to have all of my “valuable” possessions paired down and
portable.
Either way it made the move real for me. I’m packing up and
leaving! I have a home to move to, job and career perspectives and a place to settle into for a few years. No
more applying, waiting, interviewing, waiting, guessing, planning, waiting,
waiting, speculating, and more waiting. Things are happening.
I don’t think I will fully grasp the idea of not living in
Colorado for quite some time. But for now at least I have closure to a long
process that has culminated in the biggest move of my life. By no means is this the
end, there is much adventure coming, but these three suitcases mean I can stop
waiting and move on (quite literally).
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