RE: Less is MORE -- My story on learning this valuable lesson
Minimalism has become quite a trend in the modern world, especially in the design and inner consciousness industries. You'd see many companies designing furniture and houses with a minimalistic design to keep as less detail as possible and focus on the entire look as a whole. Similarly, you'll also find many sites and logos designed minimally. Take a look at the windows logo for example. In Windows XP, the logo was multicoloured with details for shadows, and colours which made it look like a 3D flag waving in the wind. The modern logo is just four uniformly coloured squares at an angle. Minimalism has changed the way we view things.
In the inner consciousness industry, you'll find many people focusing on teachings of minimalism. They aim to take a look at the bigger picture as a whole. This principle is common throughout many forms of this industry including Yoga and Tai Chi. The goal remains common throughout all forms of minimalism: achieve bigger things with the bare essentials without going for more to achieve less.
I've personally been living nomadic lifestyle since I was born as my parents keep shifting every two to three years. I've learned to adopt the principle of minimalism before I even knew what minimalism was. We've learned how to make do with what we have, and take what is absolutely essential, and leave what is not. It is more of an outlook which has found its way in our lives and helps us sift through life quite often without us even realising about it. When you say you'd packed five bags just for one country, I can understand the pain that you went through just to carry all that extra baggage.
Once you start realising the principle behind minimalism, you'll start realising it in your everyday life as well. It'll help you mentally as much as it will help you physically. It's an outlook which will really broaden your horizons and let you make your way through life while being light on your journey. Taking only what is essential puts into perspective what is important, and in turn, it'll help you live a much more meaningful life, simply because you're now not focusing on quantity for meaning, but on the quality which you already have, and the quality you can construct.
I believe that it is upon us humans to live a life of meaning by construction of a sum greater than its wholes. And that is where minimalism helps you out.
Thank you for your time, and good luck on your journey!
absolutely. It's all about quality, not quantity. These have been hard lessons to learn, because I have learned to keep everything and reuse everything that might be of value one day, rather than learned to let things go when they no longer are useful, so it's 28 years of habit that I'm trying to unlearn...but I'm getting there. And I'm at a place now where I know how much freer and fuller and better I feel with less. Less to carry, less to clean, less to deal with. Less is so much more!
And yes, is nice to see a lot of companies taking on this minimalism concept...Hopefully more people will take it on.
Thanks for reading :) :)
Now, that is true. Primarily because it gives you more space to accommodate new things as necessary.
And to be honest, at some level, Quantity does matter. However, I think we've all paid too much mind to quantity and forgotten all about quality. That's just something that we all need to realise, that everything is right in its own place. After all, that is what minimalism is all about.
Everything in its place, and only in its place.