This can also be applied to material issues as well. Owning things isn't as great as we sometimes think. I had a severe case of feeling stressed for a lot of junk lying around here that served no real purpose. I threw most of it out and felt great while doing it and afterwards.
I actually considered taking that to the next stage and just live on the most bare necessities.
One of my favorite philosophers (Can't believe I just said that), Diomedes, actually took that to the extreme and had a blast living his life that way.
I agree. I am currently in my 2nd down-sizing mode. All those possessions equal responsibility. I'm wanting to be free of them.
For you it may be responsibility, for me it was more about memory.
A lot of the things I threw out were old belongings of my now dead parents. While I do consider myself to have been over that, as far as one can say that about oneself, having these stay around as a constant reminder did leave its mark subconsciously.