@soyrosa shared this post during the PimpYourPostThursday (PYPT) curation show on "TheRamble" Discord server, and I am glad she did, for it is a fascinating post. Your writing is well-articulated and thoughtful. There is, indeed, much to be said about downsizing our lives, removing the extraneous clutter from our brains and households. I am learning as I get older (and I am in my sixties now) that I do not have the energy or resources I once did for maintaining all the "systems" that have built around me — fewer books to dig-through when I am looking for that one particular tome, happy with my slower cellphone Internet rather than a more expensive broadband connection, happier living in a smaller space with less upkeep, and so forth. Your post is commiserative to many of us and very inspiring. Bravo!