2| Minimalism is About the Time
Minimalism is not about having fewer things, a capsule wardrobe, and versatile products for your hair, face, and body. It's not about buying less. It’s also not about white walls and a blasé attitude. It's not about emptiness, but the true fulfillment of one’s soul. Minimalism is about living well, free, and lighter.
By freeing myself from extra weight, I am reclaiming the time to which I was entitled by birth, even in a heavy, fast-paced, and hard-to-digest world. In resistance, I take possession of my energy, directing it towards what is essential to me.
Pretty words, but it hasn’t always been this way. I orbited (and sometimes still orbit) things, people, and situations that took unnecessary time from me. The specific piece of clothing, which only matched the other specific piece I wore to feel beautiful at an event hosted by someone I didn't even care about that much. I sought camouflage in ordinary life.
Arriving home after a heavy workday had become noisy and tiring. I could even hear the hiss of everything that stood still on the shelves and closets, looking at me, rubbing on my face the crime of all the waste committed. The constant hiss of the holes in my restless personality, which I tried to fill with things that did not matter.
Time — which doesn't come back — that I used to earn money to buy things. The time I took to desire them, to seek for them, and to take care of them, while I didn’t even take care of myself. Until the moment they would be forgotten in my crammed closets. And there I went on desiring new things again. Desire is prison.
The deeper I dive into myself, the more minimalist I become.
Minimalism became for me a shortcut, a tool for peace. "If I don't need so many things, I'll need less money, and therefore will be able to work less and live more."
When I got rid of that hiss, I found my voice. I widened my eyes and began to see everything that was right there, but I couldn’t see before. My life began to brighten, like the sky after a storm. I wanted everyone to know. That became the most important thing to me: sharing to inspire. And here I am.