Minimalism

I have referenced it in passing a couple of times now, but a few years ago when the Minimalism documentary blew up on Netflix, the whole thing made a lot of sense to me. Back in 2017 I immediately set about trading in everything I could. Life at the time was incredibly and unusually complicated, so simplifying everything seemed like the solution I was looking for. Getting it wrong The thing about starting out with a process of radical simplification is that you probably don’t yet have a handle on what is really important to you. I started out by getting rid of the things I could easily turn into cash. To be honest, I needed the money anyway, so there were additional benefits to removing them from my life. Into a box went my Playstation 3, a bunch of games, every CD, DVD and blu-ray I had to my name; a camera; some books, my laptop; some PC components I had been saving for who knows what and my guitar. My car wouldn’t fit into a box, but I traded that too. The fruits of this process…