How to be Happy and Stress Free

I am sitting down in my living room today watching the mountains, and I realize that one year ago today, I took the decision to minimize all the things that we have. It was in my mind since my fiftieth birthday in October, and finally for December we were taking the decision for these changes. And in January we put the house for sell. Took a long time to sell the house but in the end, we finally did it, and in August we moved from a 1700 sq. ft. house to a nice 932 sq. ft. apartment.

Of course we had to get rid of a lot of stuff that we had, and I realize that we are completely disconnected because of that- our stuff. We were in a stage of our lives that we were in a lot of stress, with depression, a ton of fights, we were ill, and we don’t know what to do. We were thinking that maybe divorce was our next step. But, when we started to see what things we can keep and what we do not need any more and put stuff away, our mood started to change; we finally were communicating again. We understood at that moment that we become so materialist that we forget other things in our life, like enjoy our time together, it was more than 10 years that the only thing we did was work for buying things (stuff) we did not need to have but, would fill the empty space in our hearts, not in our house.

We understood at that moment that there is more in life than to have the best house, the best cars, pay more bills, and have more money and more work. We need to live a life of purpose, a life of meaning and adventure, a more happy and enjoyable life that unfortunately we forget to live for satisfying our egos.

As soon we moved, we started to feel more relaxed, we continued to get rid of more “stuff”, and we started to have more time to go places to enjoy ourselves.  We have more quality time with our daughters and looking how much time we loss in doing things that do not have any purpose.

When we saw our life, and recognized that is not the life we want to live, and we do not like the way we are living it, and started doing the changes, we finally reconnected again with each other, getting better health, and communicating better than we expect. We are more relax and the depression disappeared.

Now we are looking at people walking in the street with their cell phones in their hands, texting or talking, without paying attention to the world around them, going to a meeting or a date but pendant to the next text or phone call, some of them even texting or calling while driving without thinking that they are putting their life or even other people’s lives at risk only for their own selfishness. And we see the way that this world has became, we forget about communicating person to person in front one another to live and enjoy our company. People are in Social Media all the time thinking in the new friend that they are making there but when everything ends and you are in your house with yourself that emptiness become depression because that is not a real friendship; it is not like before when we can go and do things. Those friends are from whatever part of the world, and maybe the picture they show you is not even his or her real picture- that is a world that maybe can fill that space in your heart for a couple minutes or maybe hours but then what.

We are so happy now that we became minimalists because we found ourselves again in a world that is missing the values to a new relationship and communication. We meditated more to become each time 10% more happy and looking forward to work in the 90% that help us to become better human beings. To love more and to believe in that what happens to you now can change only if you want to. The only thing you can ask yourself is: Is this, which I am doing now worth it? Useful?

Look around you; look your stuff and tell me how you fill in your heart?