In our country everyone seems to want, and feel they need,
more! More room, more clothes, more
money! But with more stuff comes more
responsibilities and I want more freedom!
Freedom from taking care of stuff, from taking care of the
places stuff needs to sit in, from the time it takes to gather, store and
maintain it!
Stuff can be such a burden!
I am not exactly a minimalist, but by the standards of most
of the people I know I am. I get almost
as much pleasure from giving things away and paring things down as I do from
acquiring it.
I think I was born this way. As a child, when other children wanted collections of stuff, I
wanted to design the spaces they put that stuff in. A piece of paper and something to mark on it with always gave me
the most joy because I could draw or write or design to my heart’s
content. Now my computer does that for
me.
Some people call that a virtual life I guess, but for me it
is freedom. I love changing
things. I have always rearranged
everything. In fact, if I were to have
the perfect living space it would only be a moderate sized room with walls made
out of closets and storage spaces on wheels that could be moved around to
create and recreate different spaces depending on my mood.
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