Becoming a minimalist

What is it with people becoming minimalists and then starting blogs? 'Cause here I am blogging while tossing and giving my belongings away. Maybe it's that once you get rid of the distractions and you're not enslaved by your chores you find that you have so much time on your hands and you have fill it with something. In my case I am going to try this writing thing once more.

I am not a writer nor a storyteller but I enjoy typing up my thoughts now and then to share with others. Sometimes it is easier to share your thoughts with strangers then with your own circle of friends and family. When you want real feedback about what you are ruminating on and not someone with preconceived ideas about you to tell you how you should or shouldn't feel or think. I have mentioned to others that I am working on becoming a minimalist but haven't really 'come out' to my family. Seems silly that there should be an issue about a decision to get rid of your belongings, but there is and there isn't. There is in that I don't want the input and guilt trips from friends and family about getting rid of some 'inherited' guilt (stuff they felt bad about getting rid of so they gave it to me), and there isn't in that I don't care what they think. It all just comes down to wanting the time and space to figure out what this entails for me.

Minimalism entails a lot of navel gazing in the beginning and may comes across as selfish at times, but thats part of the process. I know that eventually I will get to the point in the process where it isn't just about me anymore but about everyone and everything else that exists outside my own little world.

I hope that I will stick with this writing. One of the reasons I found time and inclination to write today is that for once in a long time I didn't feel overwhelmed by chores that I have to do. There was no guilt in sitting down and writing for pleasure rather then have to do laundry or clean, or do some sort of work.

It feels very good.