Do you ever have insightful thoughts? Those deep urgings that make you stop and contemplate something?
For the last few years music has done this for me. It amazes me to really listen to lyrics and imagine lyricists writing these profound statements.
The current thoughts go something like this,
"That moment you realize you have more in common with those whom are already gone."
"My family endured so much in the 1800's. Moving here and there to make a living and living without much." "Now I live with way too much and feel so guilty but when I try to cut back I don't even know where to start."
We have become so accustom to living with everything we could need or want and yet are we happy? Are we happier than our ancestors? How do we know? I believe we can all agree we gauge our happiness and success by the things we own, what we drive and how large our home is. This is our life now but as many of us know, it does not bring happiness.
I just wonder how I would be if it was all taken away. If it was all gone? What would I miss the most? What can I live without? Have you ever thought about this? Look around you......think of all your personal belongings....What is it that you think you need?
Can you even make a list? This is where it becomes difficult for me.
I love the idea of the "tiny home." Have you seen those??? Are they not the utter most adorable and practical things ever?!? As my husband and I watched an episode he stated that I would never be able to do it. He on the other hand would have no problem. Again, what would go and what would you leave behind? Can you make this decision?
As I sit here in the living room and see the cute IKEA pink picture frames, candles, flowers, easels that hold my watercolors and the awesome pink entertainment center, I pause...how would my life go on without these? I look at the free - you haul - piano that my husband and son and a giant previous owner so lovingly put into the back of our 1986 Chevy 2 wheel pickup. The white vinyl sofa we ordered online because it was "cheap" or affordable. It is so uncomfortable no one sits in it but its pretty all covered in IKEA pink and grey pillows. How on earth did we think ordering a sofa online would go? LOL
It is just a constant battle within my self and I wonder if it is a battle within others. Is it time to clean out all the stuff and try a more minimal life similar to what our ancestors probably had? Do we continue to live in excess? I do know that if it was ever a choice I had to make I would take every piece of paper and every pen I could find. Also at least one Bible and my watercolors & 3 brushes and colored pencils. Of course there are family photos that I hold so near and dear so those may come too and you need clothes, of course! I would add my grandmothers cane to the list to help me get around living with Hip Dysplasia. Phone and charger & headphone would be a no brainer. What about shampoo, toothpaste and toothbrush? Of course! Our cat is a total keeper!
So what about the rest? What about all the pretties that make a home a home? When is living in excess too much? Do you ever feel like you are suffocating by it all?
The battle to become a minimalist is there but I think it will be a process. A very long process.
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