Have we been conned into moving towards owning nothing?
Can minimalism be helpful? Absolutely. Is it necessary in every area of life? Absolutely not.
For the longest time I found myself struggling with us, wondering, how can I just pass along or toss things that I’ve spent years collecting, things that have a purpose or a future. Yes I understand the future doesn’t necessarily exist, but in our minds it does! Once someone who was much more a minimalist than myself exclaimed, “Well I must say Laur, any time I need something, I know you’ll have it!”
I was stuck in freeze for a while. So I didn’t make any moves, lol nothing drastic. I organized and tidied as I went, and somewhere along the lines of learning to live in the gray, I realized we don’t need to be a minimalist in every area.
There is nothing like needing or going to reach for something and it’s not there, or is empty! For this reason, over time I found myself getting into with some call “prepping.” But this is not done out of fear, or lack, it simply done out of convenience, or if there is a power outage, etc.
A “store” is a collection of things. “Storage.” In the past, we didn’t need to go to the store, or depend on the system for things we needed. And that’s what I aim for, independence from the system, as that creates one of our healthiest feelings & beliefs: we have what we need, we are always in abundance, we are always supported & cared for cosmically.