Although we keep important items in our metaphorical luggage, too much unnecessary stuff remains. Continuing to carry all of this junk weighs you down, presses you small. “Bag Lady,” one of Erykah Badu’s most powerful and popular songs, reveals the toxic nature of maintaining excess baggage, and people disregard at their own peril the valuable lessons this song offers. You must realize that immense stress will kill you. It’s essential, therefore, to remove stressful phenomena and people from your life. Don’t get buried in the baggage you elect to transport.
Today is the right time to release the excess, dispose of the trash, and organize the clutter. Consuming and hanging around mess will turn you into mess. If you really don’t like mess, then get rid of it. Don’t go another day dealing with unhealthy stress levels, guilt, shame, condemnation, worry, and fear; tap into a hope on the inside of you far greater than them all.
When you cannot find any joy and benefit in a thing or person, then it’s time to disconnect from it or him or her.
You possess the power to improve your life today: dump the junk now.
#PopUpSermon
Dr. Antonio Maurice Daniels
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Revolutionary Paideia 
It can be so hard to accept and go through with it but this is so true!
When one recognizes the damage excessive baggage is causing, it becomes easier to eliminate, considering he or she acknowledges that it’s either his or her life or the other person or thing that will remain.
Exactly 🙂