The other day I posted the above screen on my story about how it was my first day back in an office since like 2015 and I got the message below…kinda funny ImO but I’m guilty if it too.
Plenty of people are avatars to me and it’s hard to think of them as anything different…because…well…I think the image we decide to portray on social media isn’t always the reality. And maybe that’s because we want to show ourselves as something different or because we ourselves see ourselves as something different. Whatever.
No big deal, really, but I wanted to share a bit about a new development in my sneaker journey that’s occurred over the past couple of months…
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So…me…in real life.
For a while now, I’ve been filling an empty closet in my house with shoes I ‘wanted to sell’ but haven’t. And I just kept adding and adding and adding to this pile. The other day, the wife says to me - ‘can you deal with this stuff?’ And so, it kinda brought it to the forefront. A problem I had to deal with.
Truthfully it stressed me out. Thinking about dealing with all of that crap. And so I started thinking of different ways of dealing with it. Ultimately, I decided to just get rid of it all in one fell swoop…I brought to my local consignment shop and probably got 1/5th payout of what I could have got had I held and sold myself, and I probably lost quite a bit of money, but the stress of pair after pair after pair drove me to just liquidate. And it felt good. Some regret, sure, but the clarity…man…the clarity.
Back in the day, after a liquidation, I’d be quickly back on the hunt. But this one, at 43, it feels different. I have like zero interest in building it up again, and that’s because I have no interest in being a sneaker seller…and after a little while, I sense a change in my pursuits. I think I’m like done. Like DONE DONE. You’re not gonna find me buying shit ‘just because’ any more. And that…I feel liberated.
No real point to this post other than to share the progress. I’ve been pretty vocal about my own struggle with sneaker hoarding and always looking to the next…but right now…I feel like it’s over.