A suitcase asks a life to choose what one journey can carry.

Packing forces a set of decisions that daily life lets you avoid. Everything you own is available in theory, and a case makes you say what you actually need, what you would miss, and what has just been accumulating. Limits are uncomfortable, and they are also the only thing that makes preference visible.

Pack for the next trip and pay attention to what you nearly left behind and then took anyway. Applied at home, the same question tells you which possessions are doing work and which are simply present.