”I have come to define minimalism as the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it.”
by JOSHUA BECKER at Becoming Minimalist.
If that’s the case then I find myself an aspiring minimalist.
Okay, I can hear the guffawing and sniggers from some of you. But that was then and this is now. Then I was suckered in by all the consumer society had to offer, I was feeding low self-esteem with things, trying to be someone, live some way, I thought would make me feel ok; ever in pursuit outside, of what could only be found inside.
The gifts of illness and life on a small boat showed me something different, I am learning to listen within and trust what I hear.
Somehow I knew instinctively what a family of four would need on a small boat for a year. I honed life down to the essentials with a few extras.
I managed to work out which herbs and spices we really used, which kitchen equipment would be essential what would make our boat a home rather than a hardship. I left all the rest here, at home awaiting our return.
Back surrounded by it I’ve heard this call from within, a yearning to live more simply, to eliminate the things which distract me from me and what I value most.
I’ve stamped my feet like a toddler and screamed out that “I can’t stand living like this”, I understand now,
I really can’t.
I am calling to myself, crying out the very truth of my being; what I had and how I lived was not working for me.
What do you cry out to yourself?
Are you listening?
