I finally watch this show, after it being stacked in my netflix list for a while, I almost forgot it. And it turned out I just watched it at the right time, when I try to change the direction of my life.
It is about a bunch of people trying to practicing minimalist and two guys that push the “Less is now” concept. It looks like some similar show that told us to throw away stuff and keep what is only important to us. Tell us keeping too many stuff is what makes us unhappy in our life. Like most of these shows tends to do.
But their story is what echos in my heart
It is because how they start all this makes me decided to start. We have similar problems, facing similar questions. And how that see that problem and work on it echos in my heart. I makes me have more motivation on my path of decluttering and minimalist.
And this is my story
Start in a poor or not so wealthy family that have issues. Feeling like something is not right and I need to earn a lot of money when I grow up to fix this. Because I can’t get much until I am in university, I keep on buying things that is similar to what I want as a kid, but just the more expensive version of it.
I have been improving myself, climbing up the ladder at work. Become a manager at the age of 26, make around 42K per annum.
My friends and relatives think I am successful, but I only feel like a void getting bigger and bigger since getting in university.
And after like 8 years, my good childhood habit of saving is still here but not functioning well. I got so stressed out because I want to earn more and have a better title at work. I mentally and physically broke down into. I got so many projects that I really want to do got stopped by work. I am so broken my parents got worried and tell me to stop working for a while, to keep me from getting insane.
At the first few months of no income, I still try to fill myself with stuff, and experiences I don’t even need or like, at all
This eats into my savings that I need to pay for student loan and other essential bills like me insurance. This just give me more stress and more problems.
I start to ask myself what I really need. I want to share my thought, I need to write and be creative, I need to read to keep my brain functioning. And that’s it.
I see that I got so many stuff that I don’t really want in my life. And so many information I don’t want flooding my emails and social network. I start by decluttering my digital life. I start removing twitter and instagram follows that are business I think I would enjoy their service, unsubscribing to newsletter that flood my email, exiting from groups that boom-bard me with meaningless angry posts on Facebook, editing my to watch list on youtube and Netflix.
It is in fact a soothing process, it also get you away with ads you don’t need.
Yes I am a marketing person myself, but I am also a minimalist and I hate direct emails that are useless. NO CONFLICT.
Next, is working on with tangible stuff. Like they said at the end of the show, throw one thing away on the first day, two on the second and so on. You will be amazed by the time you can get, from not needing to spend time maintaining and tidying stuff. You start to see you don’t need that much to life a fulfilled life. What really needed, is real relationship that benefits you, is quality time with family, is time for yourself to relax.
I am still on my way to a better life and I hope you could try it out soon.
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