Simplicity
“I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.”-Sandra Cisneros Growing up with hoarders, I lived in houses piled with random garage sale finds and stacks of butter dishes filled with useless items my family never knew we even had. It was a very tiny house. The miniature house was similar to something you’d see in Alice In Wonderland.It was crowded with oversized furniture covered in crazy patterns and colors and a mixture of victorian and retro decorations.My grandma always came staggering in the front door carrying about a dozen of things she found at a garage sale that we already had multiples of.At the time, my room was the storage room so I never really had a space of my own. I always felt like I was trapped in a space where I couldn’t express my personality. I was introduced to minimalism several years ago by a book called “Do Less” by Rachel Jonat and minimalism is a concept where you get rid of anything that doesn’t directly make you happy or have a use in your life. By that time I had read this book I had my own room in a bigger …show more content…
I have a roof over my head. I have running water, I have a shirt on my back and enough food to provide for me and my siblings. Those are the necessities. I don’t need a coach purse or a makeup collection that could fill three H.E.B bags. I don’t need thirty pairs of shoes or tons of decorative pillows that have to be thrown on the floor every time I hop into bed at night. And those things can make some people very happy. It’s a way for them to express their personality through appearance. I express my personality through the way I speak. I’m okay with just a pair of vans, ripped jeans and a plain T-shirt. As a minimalist, I find the beauty of others in their voice and attitude, not through their appearance. I find beauty in simplicity. I find beauty in
“I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.”-Sandra Cisneros Growing up with hoarders, I lived in houses piled with random garage sale finds and stacks of butter dishes filled with useless items my family never knew we even had. It was a very tiny house. The miniature house was similar to something you’d see in Alice In Wonderland.It was crowded with oversized furniture covered in crazy patterns and colors and a mixture of victorian and retro decorations.My grandma always came staggering in the front door carrying about a dozen of things she found at a garage sale that we already had multiples of.At the time, my room was the storage room so I never really had a space of my own. I always felt like I was trapped in a space where I couldn’t express my personality. I was introduced to minimalism several years ago by a book called “Do Less” by Rachel Jonat and minimalism is a concept where you get rid of anything that doesn’t directly make you happy or have a use in your life. By that time I had read this book I had my own room in a bigger …show more content…
I have a roof over my head. I have running water, I have a shirt on my back and enough food to provide for me and my siblings. Those are the necessities. I don’t need a coach purse or a makeup collection that could fill three H.E.B bags. I don’t need thirty pairs of shoes or tons of decorative pillows that have to be thrown on the floor every time I hop into bed at night. And those things can make some people very happy. It’s a way for them to express their personality through appearance. I express my personality through the way I speak. I’m okay with just a pair of vans, ripped jeans and a plain T-shirt. As a minimalist, I find the beauty of others in their voice and attitude, not through their appearance. I find beauty in simplicity. I find beauty in