We all borned to be minimalists

Think about it for a moment, what do I mean by all of us borned to be minimalists? The asnwer is straight forward, none of us came to this world holding some material possesion in our hands, except Michael Jordan, he must have come to this planet with a basketball in his hands, jokes aside, we all born without material objects.

That’s probably for a reason, nature firgured it out way before us what’s good for us. In every aspect of our life the nature created way for us, let’s just mention healthy eating, mother nature or God/Allah/Buddha/Jahve whatever you may call it, provided us food which perfectly fits for our diet and gives us everything to satisfy our needs. Yes, mother nature did not create process food for us, we created processed food for ourselves and yes highly processed food is not fitting our needs, it can be satisfying to eat it but it doesn’t change the fact that they are not the best for our body and mind.

Following the same argument, material possessions are not there to make us happy because it simply does not work this way, they can add value to our lives but their primary purpose is to make our life easier not to make us happier.

If happiness would be correlated with material possesions and with money than Jeff Bezos supposed to be the happiest man alive, I guess he’s not famous for that. Before you make up in your mind that I’m trying to convince you money can’t make you temporarily happy I have to disappoint you but it’s not what I meant to discribe.

Psychology knows long time ago something called Maslow’s pyramid. Abraham Maslow described the levels of human motivation in “A Theory of Human Motivation” in 1943. He argues that there are 5 levels of human motivation and to move up on the levels, each level has to be satisfied.

Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, don’t confuse needs with wants.

When most ignorant people argues that money can buy happiness, when they claim that material possession like a nice Rolex or a stunning Bentley can make them happier they don’t think about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

The human nature works on such way that once the physiological needs were met, eg; basic needs such as food and shelter and after the second level of the pyramid is achieved what Maslow described as safety which can relate to physical safety but also financial safety than we human beings, we seek love and belonging and after the next step and so on till self actualization.

Each stage is descirbed in few words just to make it more clear for everyone.

As Maslow claimed each stage has to be fulfilled and reached in order to be able to move onto the next one and as you can clearly observe the bottom two parts are the material parts of the pyramid.

This is for a reason, because once you met with the basic physical needs and security you have time to realize that there’s more to achieve than material possessions. There’s more in this life than materialism, there’s so much to look forward in life such as love and belonging, friendships, self-actualization, to get into equilibrium with our lives.

We did not come to this planet only to seek for possesion what we can’t take with us after the time has come. Something definitely went wrong between the moment we born and today. But nothing to worry about, till we don’t realize we’re doing something wrong, we can’t correct it, so it’s time to open up our eyes an face it.

Minimalism is not about not having nothing, instead using everything we have, being mindful in our lives, making the best use of everything we own and if we stoped using them than we look for someone who would get better use of it, I do not encourage you to throw away everything, instead make the most out of them and if you can’t than look around yourself and pass it to someone who would make better use of it.

Sharing is caring, sharing is caring about the planet, about the environment, about each other.

Disclaimer; Sharing is caring, it does not apply to relationships.

I wish for everyone to reach the bottom two part of the pyramid and then keep on going up on the ladder till the top.

Your sincerely

To/Minimal