. I think you are arriving at a point where you don't see a point having too much stuff. Stuff weighs you down. I've often fantasized about condensing everything down to one suitcase. That is a practical impossibility, but one can dream. What really matters are the important things in life.
This discussion resonates with me. I’m 68, retired, and confronting what to do with my remaining years, which includes trying to keep my better half happy. For whatever reason, I find myself feeling weighed down, as PRJ put it, by the stuff I own. What my wife owns for her interests doesn’t bother me, but the fact that I have so many cameras I can’t decide half the time what to take on a trip is making me nuts. Example: I flew out with my son to Monterey, California for Car Week when some of the best cars in the world descend on the Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach. In addition, we went to Laguna Seca Raceway to watch old F1 and other classics race — great fun. Three days before travel, I’m looking at this combination of SLR and lenses, or that RF and lenses, or a P/S, or a medium format RF, or or or...I think I really need to cut down so the focus is on making the photos, not on selecting the gear. Same goes for hifi — I’ve recently sold a Sonic Frontiers tube amp, a Nakamichi tuner/pre, a McCormack preamp, a classic Sansui TT, and so forth — too much gear weighing me down.
I won’t give up photography yet, one reason being that my memory may be slowing down, so having photos made over the next decade may help me, when I’m in my mid-80’s, remember what I did in my 70’s! As my mother is 96, lives alone, drives herself to town every week, my genes may dictate that I’ll be hanging around for a while, so “looking back 25 years to when I was 70” is a possibility.
I completely agree that OP should do whatever feels right — it’s your life, live it to make yourself happy.