Archive for the ‘happiness’ Category

It’s popular to equate physical possessions with security. Buying more stuff makes people feel like they are secure and insulated from the world. In some sense, I guess this is true. If you ever have a spur of the moment, 45 person dinner party I suppose you’ll be glad to have the multiple sets of [...]

I don’t want to live and work from anywhere. There, I said it. In this world of awesome minimalism bloggers I feel like a fraud for admitting it, but it’s the truth. It seems like the ultimate goal of many bloggers is to travel the world while sustaining themselves from a blog or other internet [...]

There is a certain five-letter word that I think might be the most offensive in the entire English language. It starts with a B and ends in ORED. I use it much more than I should and it’s my own personal goal to never say it again. Being bored is what happens when you live [...]

It can be tempting to think that life is built around universal principles that are devoid of any fallacies or contradictions. Unfortunately, as we all know, life is full of paradoxes and I’ve recently come across one in my own quest for a simpler life. One of the benefits of living with a more minimalist [...]