Experiencing Minimalism

I was sixteen years old. Unhappy. Depressed. Dissatisfied by the status quo. It seemed like there was not much hope left for someone like me to thrive in a world barren of positivity and that made a gaping hole through my soul. The telos that I sought for was never going to show up. Or so I thought it wouldn't.

Minimalism, it was a very different beginning to say. I reached my eigtheenth year of being alive, but I wasn't that alive. Maybe, I was an extrovert in mind but an introvert in action which may have caused all these upsetting thoughts. A year full of losses made me think of what does it really mean to continue to endure life with such circumstances that I find no longer reasonable to amend with.

And so, while any teenager would do, I went through skimming around the internet looking for the answers I know that wasn't really going to be explicitly be there. Until I saw a youtube channel that introduced the idea of minimalism to me. As a teenager, it didn't make the complete sense at first. Especially in a different subset of cultures, everything was too different to take and it intrigued my very soul to try and might as well experience the minimalist life.

I found a channel of Matt D'Avella and The Minimalists, Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus. They claim to say that a life living with less and finding one's meaning in life can ultimately lead us with long-term contentment and happiness.

And so, probably the eighteen year old who is ever so enthusiastic to try something new. I did what I think was very right to be a minimalist. Throwing all my clothes accidentally and unintentionally though to a trash bag and my mom just happened to place it beside the garbages and it went down the drain (of course, clothes dont just go down, they just got wasted). I lost a couple of my favorite clothes, but most were clothes of mine that just didnt sit right with me and reducing those actually helped me psychologically to feel better. So this decluttering habit got to me and it gained momentum.

The next thing I knew, I permanently deleted all my social media accounts and went on to become a not-so-good hermit without social media for 30 days. (since it takes that much time for one social media platform to permanently delete the said account) Life was indeed... Fulfilling for the first time. I got to do things which I thought never mattered to me but then indeed have mattered. My gloomy days went to become the days of my glory. It was a different beginning.

As a student and still not be able to fully control essentially every aspect in my life, some decisions of becoming a minimalist had to take some compromises. I have to tell my parents that I would be doing this and that, without shocking them as to why or whether I've gone mad. Neither some of my friends couldn't understand why was I locking myself away. Well, I was breaking out to break in to my life once more and claim it as my own. Anyways, minimalism is a bit of a challenge when you still don't have the control of basically, the entire life that you own. (Some could say that no one ever does control their life entirely, but safe to assume the things referred to are those of what an adult usually can control).

So this blog will be used entirely as I explore minimalism into depths. There's no more going back. Minimalism is indeed a profound philosophy at its maximum potential. I could taste the irony. To know how far experiences as a young minimalist can take, tune in for the next experiences, here on this blogspot.

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