Simplifying my life has had an unexpected side-effect. I should have thought it through; logically, I could have predicted this. When you simplify, you focus more on what remains. This is the attraction of minimalism – there are so few objects in the room that each one stands out all the more. The effect of simplifying is to intensify, to concentrate, what remains. To make what remains stand out, shorn of extraneous embellishments and complications – purified.
And maybe that’s why minimalist philosophies go on about “living in the moment” – because when you take away the past and the future, and all the added complications that go with memory and anticipation – what’s left is enhanced, focussed, concentrated and somehow pure. And however unfamiliar it may feel, I find I like the intensity of that.
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