How Minimalism Saves me

I started my journey into the minimalism 5 years ago, at that time I was a 23 years student at D.A.M.S. (please don't laught it’s still the best choice of my life). A day I was scrolling my youtube feed when i was captured by a title of a video A Day in the Life of a Minimalist - YouTube. I have to admit that I started to joke on this guy but after 2 minutes of his video I totally fallen in a rabbit hole from i never came back. Matt’s channel was very important for me, but i recognized it just a year ago when i understand the meaning of minimalism for me.

Usually when we think about a minimalist we imagine a person that looks all time in the same way (and it's true on my case), but it's is more complicated we can't reduced to just an aestetich perspective.

Minimalism is a lifestyle that can help us in almost every aspect of our day but for me the most important was and is introspection.

It help me to understand the priority of my life and focus to the very important things, on my achievements and on what i want for my future.

All good but what does it change on me?

After the first video of Matt D'Avella I started my personal discovery first in his channel an then in "The minimalist" one with many others in few weeks so basically i thought to had became a Pro-Minimalist but I feel as something missing and i wasn't able to understand what.

Find the missing thing was probably the most hard mental activity i ever done.

I went down in the rabbit hole, more videos, more podcast, more articles, more books but no one of this stuff help me to find this thing.

After some years i understand what i'm searching for.

It was my Time.

I wasn't able to see it probably because i searched anywhere but not inside me.

I want to be more clear, i'm super introspective person, i can literally loose my self inside my mind but i wasn't able to live emotions, or better, I could feel them but i didn't want live them. I was so scared by them, I was unconscious and conscious of this fear at the same time. So i refugee to live them, for so long time.

So why did i type Time?

Easy!

I wasn't living my life but I was living for satisfy others.

I have to be grateful to my Psycologyst because she gently force me to look inside my self and link what i feel with what i live.

I had to reach 28 years to just understand how to use emotions, nobody teach this to us but it's so fucking imporant.