Hi Mac! I read your post early and in fact I was so interested in your topic that I read all your previous posts on minimalism but I went to work.
Honestly I didn't know that this was really a philosophy of life, I had read in your footer that you are a minimalist, but I figured you meant that you carry few things in your backpack, because you like to travel and I assumed that was the reason, but once I read your posts I understood too many things, this really is a way of detachment towards the material and live only with the fundamental to be happy only with that, I was really impressed because after so long I was in complete ignorance about what the term really meant, I only associated it to art such as architecture and design, but I never thought it was something so broad.
I must tell you that I admire you completely, I would like to be like you, really, not to be influenced by the outside and develop a need for so many things that I feel I need to live and that should not be so.
I will go deeper into the subject because it really interests me, I want to be like you when I grow up hahaha, that we say around here to joke because the truth is that I am older than you by about 10 years 😅, but you are very very mature for your age.
Greetings @macchiata and ¡congrats for your 5 years minimalism! I keep reading your posts and I am ashamed to comment you, but today I left the shamed aside.
Hahah yeah, I think in the past it works like you said, people having fewer items. But the truth it, there is more than items in minimalism. It's really something so broad that I didn't even touch a lot of it. I think this week I will share what it's like being a minimalist but also having a hobby.
I still have a lot to learn but it seems as I age, I am getting tired of learning. I try to not be too curious because like they say, curiosity kill the cat 😃 or maybe not.
Never be ashamed to comment on my post. I always welcome a comment. That means my post is able to make someone stop by and say something. Even just a thank you, I really appreciate it.
I read somewhere that you need human contact every 6 months or so and that's when you go out and travel hahahaha you are so much like me, I wish I could do that. I swear I would do it because I'm a hermit, I prefer digital contact, in fact I'm waiting for artificial intelligence to advance just to have my own robot companion, I think I won't need more than that in my life haha. Ok I exaggerate a little bit as a joke. But I seriously prefer not to socialize with the people around me, I just don't want to, I have to and I force myself to.I will do it from now on, I'll keep an eye on these posts, I saw that you are a Korean food lover like me, I love it! I will try to enter more often to read you friend @machiata
I love korean food. They are healthy and nutritious. I can't cook a lot of them because it's complex though.
Yeah! I always do this. Even right now, I am pausing after a lot of human contact from December to April. This time around I am taking 3 months with minimal exposure to human before I am going back hitting the road.
You can do that from time to time, all it takes is just a bit of curiosity and willingness to explore what other people think about life 😄. Have no expectations when communicating but also have a firm boundaries. It's challenging but like everything, easier when you often do that.