I live a boundless, forward moving energetic life that is free of baggage holding me back.

Not everything in the pack is baggage. A climber carries fifteen kilos up a route and every kilo is a reason not to fall.

The difficulty is that equipment and baggage feel identical on the shoulders. Caution learned from a bad year, a habit of reading contracts twice, an unwillingness to trust anybody quickly — these read as things holding you back, and some of them are the reason you are still standing.

Worth sorting rather than dumping, then. Ask of each one what it was for, and whether the thing it was protecting you from is still out there. Some of it goes. Some gets promoted from burden to tool.