VileOrb
Your self-description is so close to mine it’s scary.
Change the age to 35 and the city and it describes me perfectly.
However, if emotional “baggage” includes past incidents you regret, or people you may have hurt, or things you wish you could do over again, then I’d need an “emotional warehouse” to store it all.
I think we all have regrets. When a person continues to dwell on them, then it becomes baggage.
Just my opinion.
“Life’s too short babe, time is flyin’
I’m looking for baggage that goes with mine…”
-Rent
I dont think I fit in this categories.
18, with history of mental breakdowns, a bit of a junk, failure in school.
Huh huh… who s perfect?!
I like my luggage 
Belongs to me,
dodgy
Abuse survivor. My baggage is going to stay zipped and locked, though; I’m not unpacking it for my kids if any.
I’m not even 18 yet and I already have baggage. I’m trying to get adjusted and unpack, though. I’m hoping to leave the baggage here when I move.
Sure, as manny peoples have noticed, ask us to talk about ourselves and we will!
I think I’m picking up two meanings for baggage. In the sense that Lizard addressed, I, as well, have been able to let a lot go. At 47, I’ve left several exes in my trail (or, perhaps, they’ve left me in their trails), I’ve succeeded with some entreprenurial efforts, but I’ve crashed a company. All kinds of “it’d be nice if I had that to do over again” experiences. But, I’m not really feeling any great weight from it all.
OTOH, I’m definitely not running for public office in the foreseeable future.
Using the VileOrb standard I would say that I don’t have any baggage. Using other criteria, I would say that I probably have a nice garment bag and a matching carry on. I am in the midst of a personal crisis right now and I’ll post the story when it passes, then you can tell me if I have any baggage or not.
Extremely baggage-less. No kids, debts, felonies, ex wives, etc…here. A pretty care-free life at the moment. For the most part, I intend to keep it that way.
I’m 29 with lots of personal baggage. But I am lucky to be married to a man (32 years old) with no personal baggage. He helps me with mine.
Good for you.
Me? Baggage? uhhhh, that would be a big ole affirmative. oh yeah.
My only baggage is that for some reason I’m a virgin.
And it’s not the virgin part that’s the baggage, it’s the mysterious ‘for some reason’ part.
I’m 32, divorced (but very amicably - I even got him together with his new wife!), no debts, no mortgage, no dependants, no troubles at all. All my friends are the same way, but it’s getting harder and harder to find them in my age bracket.
It’s really great, and I aim to keep it that way for as long as possible, but I can see that the future will bring some serious threats to my current state. My parents had me fairly late and they are aging. They live in two old houses on a lot of land and there are always tax, insurance, maintenence and security problems that I’ll have to deal with on my own some day. The community college I want to teach in starting in 2002 is fraught with administration problems and the students arrive highly unprepared for higher education and leave without demonstrating much gain in knowledge - it’s regarded as one of the worst CCs in the state. So right now I’m polishing up the armor!