Don't let life take you hostage; learn to subtract, and the more you do, the more refined your life becomes

Someone once asked,

what can you do to quickly improve your quality of life?

The wise man answered: throw things away regularly

Right on the mark!

We often do this:

we buy new things but never deal with the old ones

Clothes, shoes and hats we no longer wear, spare buttons, sticky notes...

The clutter piles up more and more,

We always think we should keep it, maybe it will be useful someday

Yet once put away, it never comes out again

We also often run into these problems:

A wardrobe full of clothes, yet we don't know which one to wear

A pile of books piled up on the shelf, yet we rarely flip through them

All kinds of apps on the phone, yet we still don't know what to play

We want to find something, yet feel at a loss amid the mess

......

Congratulations, you have been taken hostage by life!

Life is originally very simple,

yet too much material stuff presses down on us until we can't breathe

Accumulating clutter day after day is actually hoarding stress

While living space is being occupied,

our mood also becomes stifled and irritable

Each day all that's left is the mechanical commute to work and back, eating and sleeping

Even the line "The world is so big, I want to go see it"

has become mere small talk over tea~

An old saying goes:

"A thousand qing of fertile farmland is no more than three meals a day,

ten thousand spacious rooms are only three chi of sleeping space"

What we own is all limited,

there is no need to seek completeness or abundance~

An unexamined life is not worth living

Unexamined material things - it's not that you possess them,

but that they possess you!

So we should regularly subtract,

cut away the pointless, keep what's useful

Make room, travel light

and your mood will suddenly open up too!

One set of pots and pans, one frequently used water cup

A few outfits you love to wear, a few valuable books

One room, one bed

Life is just this simple~

Starting today, clear out the useless things,

let every homecoming feel better

Clear out useless socializing,

let every relationship be simpler and warmer

Clear out the distracting thoughts in your mind,

let yourself be free of distractions and live every minute and second of the present well!

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