How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to feel the straps on your shoulders. Feel them?
I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life. You start with the little things. Things on shelves, in the drawers, the knickknacks, collectibles. Feel the weight it all adds up.
Then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, linens, your TV. The backpack should be getting pretty heavy now.
You go bigger. Your couch, your bed, your kitchen table, stuff it all in there. Your car, get it in there. Your home, whether it's a studio apartment or a two-bedroom house. I want you to stuff it all into that backpack.
Now try to walk. It's kinda hard, isn't it? This is what we do to ourselves on a daily basis: we weigh ourselves down til we can't even move and make no mistake; moving is living
Now, I'm gonna set that backpack on fire. What do you wanna take out of it? Photos? Photos are for people who can't remember. Drink some ginkgo and let the photos burn.
In fact let everything burn and imagine waking up tomorrow with nothing. It's kinda exhilarating, isn't it?
以上節錄”Up In the Ar”電影裡的一段台詞, 也是Ryan所提到廣被大家所知道的” What's in your backpack ” 許也每個人看了這段,會有不同的見解和想法, 就我個人的解讀, 當你看過了、仔細地檢閱了你的背包, 你會發現你原來背了如此多其實用不到也不用每天攜帶的物品, 就如同你我身邊所使用的電腦一樣。