Other People's Weight in Your Drawers

Day 6 of 7: Quantum Releasing Before the Solstice Portal

Your home contains a museum exhibit of people who no longer live here. Your ex’s hoodie in the back of the closet that you’re keeping for “emotional closure” which is a fancy way of saying you sniff it when you’re drunk and sad. Your mother’s Tupperware she left in 2019 and has never asked about but you can’t throw away because somehow that would make you a bad daughter. A friend’s book they lent you seven years ago that neither of you has mentioned since, creating a low-grade hostage situation where the book holds your friendship’s unspoken tension and your shelf holds the book. Congratulations. You’re running an emotional storage facility and charging yourself rent.

Your shoulders carry weight that never belonged to your skeleton. Other people’s belongings in your space aren’t neutral. They’re energetic tenants with opinions, expectations, and access to your nervous system. Every object someone else owns that lives in your home runs a background program: relationship maintenance requ…