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Quest for minimalism
May 13th, 2021
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I feel the urge of minimalism, both in my belongings as
my habits.

While I've always appreciated the minimalism in
computing, I never seriously explored the idea of
extending the same principles to my lifestyle.

I've been following a podcast on the topic, realising
that this is a wonderful idea!

The bad news is that meditating on it made it clear
that I've got too much stuff, (of course!) and that I
should get rid of many pointless objects cumulated over
time.

The good news is that my current state is not so bad:
once I get rid of the cruft, I'm very unlikely to pile
it up again, since ...well, I just don't care of
things.  E.g. I never felt the urge of buying a new
pair of shoes, if the one I've got is not worn off.

The only serious obstacles in my way, as in the way of
many others, are the sentimental value of certain
objects, and the idea of wasting material that is not
useful right now, but that might be possibly useful in
the future.

A good advice I've obtained from the podcast is that
most "possibly useful in future" things can be sold,
given away, or just properly recycled.  If there's no
other way than wasting them, may the painful experience
be inspirational, to avoid future pointless purchases.