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Hello!
I was the OP of the Minimalism thread on the other place, so I thought it would be a neat idea to bring it here.
Here's what I wrote that time:
A lot of people, especially @Terrell , went to that thread and shared a lot of great stuff.
So what's minimalism?
There's a whole bunch of concepts going around but what we will be talking about here is what other people refer as simple living. We will define simple living as 'limiting our time, belongings and consumption to the bare minimum we can live happily with'.
What do I mean with this? Usually, we put too much emphasis on stuff that doesn't really makes us happy. For example, I started noticing that I spent too much time on my computer, randomly scrolling social media (Reddit, Facebook, etc), without being particularly interested in any of it. So, what I did, was to close all my accounts and forced a limit on myself about how much time I can spend in front of my computer. I'm on the beginning stages of course but I've managed to actually go to sleep at decent hours and by consequence not being shit faced every day at work.
When I opened this thread I was more interested in the material part of minimalism, and it is still a big factor I like. By letting go 90% of the stuff I owned, I made space for the things I love the most, and spend less time worrying about things and more time actually using those things. I used to worry all the time about having a perfect videogame collection but what good is it if it brings you more burdens (financial, worrying about said collection value and condition, etc). So I got rid of most of the games I had, pulled myself (well I say myself but of course it wouldn't have been possible without the invaluable help of friends and family) out of a financial hole, and I learned to enjoy more the stuff I have. And so far there's been very, very few regrets.
So, how about you?
I was the OP of the Minimalism thread on the other place, so I thought it would be a neat idea to bring it here.
Here's what I wrote that time:
A lot of people, especially @Terrell , went to that thread and shared a lot of great stuff.
So what's minimalism?
There's a whole bunch of concepts going around but what we will be talking about here is what other people refer as simple living. We will define simple living as 'limiting our time, belongings and consumption to the bare minimum we can live happily with'.
What do I mean with this? Usually, we put too much emphasis on stuff that doesn't really makes us happy. For example, I started noticing that I spent too much time on my computer, randomly scrolling social media (Reddit, Facebook, etc), without being particularly interested in any of it. So, what I did, was to close all my accounts and forced a limit on myself about how much time I can spend in front of my computer. I'm on the beginning stages of course but I've managed to actually go to sleep at decent hours and by consequence not being shit faced every day at work.
When I opened this thread I was more interested in the material part of minimalism, and it is still a big factor I like. By letting go 90% of the stuff I owned, I made space for the things I love the most, and spend less time worrying about things and more time actually using those things. I used to worry all the time about having a perfect videogame collection but what good is it if it brings you more burdens (financial, worrying about said collection value and condition, etc). So I got rid of most of the games I had, pulled myself (well I say myself but of course it wouldn't have been possible without the invaluable help of friends and family) out of a financial hole, and I learned to enjoy more the stuff I have. And so far there's been very, very few regrets.
So, how about you?
