Freedom in a Prius

I still remember the feeling that went through my body while I sat on my bedroom floor, as I sorted my personal belongings into two piles. Sadness, anger, disappointment, everything but happiness. It seemed to be a neverending rippling effect of emotions. One emotion would cause another emotion to surface, which then led another emotion to emerge, so on and so forth. When I had finally finished sorting through all of my inanimate objects, I stared at the two piles. Both were drastically different in size and frankly, the bigger one was headed to my local Goodwill the next morning. More than half my clothes was leaving my possession, so was three-quarters of my shoes, and the entirety of my furniture. Why? Because my boyfriend and I were downsizing from the comfort of our rented room to the backseats of our 2008 Prius. August 1st of 2018, was the beginning of a new way of life for us. We weren't hit with misfortune, we weren't financially burdened, we weren't drownin