Pinch by Bradley L Bowers.Elegance, lightness, serenity, simplicity and grace. These are a few wor
Pinch by Bradley L Bowers. Elegance, lightness, serenity, simplicity and grace. These are a few words that I hope my future home will embody. I’ve recently been drawn towards a more ‘minimalist’ lifestyle and one of my goals this year is to curate ruthlessly. Minimalist doesn’t equate to clean pastel pale silhouttes and lines. Rather, the lifestyle focuses on what is essential and strips away any excess. In a world where consumerism encourages us to buy more, “get these in all these colors!”, “ buy 1 get 1 free”, we accumulate a lot more excess than our lifestyle permits. Perhaps this graviation towards a minimalist lifestyle has been a long time coming - over the years, I’ve noticed a strange purchasing cycle: Someone purchases an item out of impulse and realizes he does not have any use for it. However, he finds difficulty in discarding it because money (and often a good bit of money) has already been spent on it. Hence, it is shelved somewhere in the wardrobe of a hypothetical future use. We rationalise our purchases - that it was good value and that it will be useful someday. Another instance where I felt a draw - I was eating lunch at a coffee shop, a plate of chicken rice cost $4. The same evening, L & I had dinner at a sushi spot that was mid range. Halfway, while placing sushi into my mouth, I felt a strange jolt, how could I be paying $3 for a plate of sushi and eating several plates when this amount was someone else’s full meal. The incredulity struck me hard and I ate a few more plates with a heavy guilty heart. There is a lot of excess in the manner we consume. Luxuries are meant to be a slight indulgence once in a while but not a daily lifestyle that one should strive towards. 2016, a year for conscious curation. -- source link