Dispossession

A good buddy wrote:
When you are able to discard items accumulated from a certain era of your life, save for a handful of mementos, you know that you have come to terms with your past and are enjoying the present.

I agree. Partially.

Last week, I busied myself with such dispossession and discarding. Indeed, I believe I have more or less come to terms with the past. But sometimes, I wonder if I'm really enjoying the present.