Live it Simple is about Minimalism, Mindfulness and Simplicity. Because life is complicated enough.

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    A brand new look on things

    Below are excerpts from the book “My Life Deleted”.
    Scott Bolzan suffered from permanent memory loss after he slipped and hit his head. When Scott returned home he couldn’t understand why he and his wife would own so many items. He decided to sell some items to finance the medical bills and because he didn’t want to be confronted with a past that he couldn’t even remember.

    My mind was boggled by the discovery that she owned at least one hundred pairs of shoes and that the price tags were still attached to probably 20 percent of her clothing.
    Why would she continue to buy shirts, sweaters, coats, pants, and skirts when she already owns more than she can wear?

    On my side of the bathroom counter was a stack of boxes, each of which contained a shiny fancy men’s watch.
    Why would anybody need all these watches when you only have one wrist to wear them on? I am wearing only one ring now, but I saw men on TV wearing lots of rings, so I maybe wore more than one watch at a time?
    But, as I stood there, I couldn’t understand why I would need a single watch, let alone thirteen of them, when my cell phone showed me the time.

    It was nice to see that this watch had brought him happiness when it wasn’t doing anything for me but serving as a reminder of my previous excess.
    Thank God I didn’t owe any money on these watches. What kind of greedy man was I, needing to surround myself with all these cars and watches when I’ve seen so many people on the news going hungry, living with no phone or running water, not just in other parts of the world, but here in the United States too?
    I was proud that I’d been successful enough to buy these luxuries, but when I considered how much I’d indulged myself, I felt nauseated.

    I wonder if this indicates that most people aren’t into accumulating items in the first place. But are merely told by the media that it is ‘normal’ to do so.

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