Respect, understand, but don't try!
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Do you remember the "door-picking girl" Kate Hashimoto we introduced earlier, who lives in New York?
After 8 years of not buying clothes, picking up food not wanted in high-end hotels, and so on, at that time, I could look at the day station Jun stunned, I did not understand, but I was greatly shocked!
Two days ago, in the program "Subtraction of Life" launched by CCTV, Ri Zhanjun found a Chinese "girl who broke away from the house"!
Although it is not as exaggerated as Kate Hashimoto, it can really be seen by everyone!
Josan's break from life!
The Chinese girl, Qiao Sang, is a practitioner of minimalist living.
She began at the end of 2020, using video to record her non-consumption life every day, and this time out of the circle on CCTV also let more people see another daily life!
· Minimalist room: just 6 pieces of furniture ·
In the video, Josan's room can be said to be "unobstructed".
A dining table, two benches, and a large mirror, all of which she had found herself to make by hand from wood.
The only thing that may stand out is the bed, if you can call it a bed. It's actually a bed frame combined with a four-piece set on the bed!
Josan's friend lay down and looked up at the ceiling and said, "If I were to give you something, I'd send you a mattress." Later, I really couldn't help but complain: "This bed frame is too bumpy and clear!" ”
Although Josan said that if the back sleep is uncomfortable, he will still choose to sleep on the mat, but I believe that many people still can't understand, is it really necessary to do this?
In fact, the area of Qiao Sang's home is 88 square meters, but because there are only 6 pieces of furniture in full, it seems very empty and cold!
· The perfect "rubbing rice": barter ·
In addition to saving money on houses and furniture, Josan can also save money in terms of eating, and even return to the original - barter!
The first "barter" was at a friend's house, where friends lived alone, and there were nearly 100 eggs in the house, but they didn't cook very often, and they couldn't finish eating, and Josan took some of them.
I used to stay at a friend's house, and when I came back, I took my friend's excess toothbrush and toothpaste because Josan's toothpaste just ran out.
Remember "Just ran out" here.
In fact, her friend said that a month ago, she thought her toothpaste was running out, but she didn't expect to "just run out" today!
Later, she also used black beans and oats, and exchanged lychees, watermelon, rib soup, etc. with the neighbors, and solved it at dinner.
Friends of social terror have curled up their toes when they see this!
Usually go to the market to buy vegetables, will ask the boss if there are any vegetables that are not good-looking or faded but do not affect the consumption.
Some people will say that she "rubbed" Josan had expected it, but she didn't care at all, it was just that they were solving the problem of over-resources.
Even when she goes to work, she basically doesn't spend money! Because now the city where Josan lives has a "1 cent bus" activity, although it takes 20 minutes to walk 2 kilometers.
There may be a lot of people who think duck is not necessary, right?
Josan asked with a soul: Do you cherish the time saved? And this journey may satisfy your exercise volume for the day, so that you don't need to find time to go to the gym to run, get a card, and then say that you don't have time to go to the gym (the last sentence back to the carbine, there is nothing to say...). ）。
She started by releasing videos, just to document her life, and slowly as the number of fans increased, for Josan, it was they supervising her from another angle, making her who she wanted to be.
She has several fan bases, which are full of punch cards that everyone consumes in a day, and frankly speaking, Josan still likes the feeling of being supervised.
· Spiritual life is not minimalist!·
There is no strong desire for material things, and there are some gaps in feelings and spirits, so Josan has arranged a rich spiritual life for himself.
Every morning at 5:30 a.m., after yoga and meditation, Josan's day begins.
She feels that yoga and renunciation may be intrinsically connected, that it's more about making you look inward, paying more attention to yourself, making you press a pause button when your mood changes, and then thinking about why you're in the state you're in now.
In the past, Qiao Sang could not accept too many social activities with friends, but after a period of precipitation, she calmed down a lot and began to enjoy communicating and eating with friends.
In April last year, she also made a shared bookstore, some of which were old books that she had bought and received from the second-hand market, but most of them were mailed directly by fans.
I decided to do this, one is to satisfy myself to read paper books without spending money, and the other is to let more and more people read paper books around me. She hopes that the book here can play a healing role when they are depressed or alone.
Once also a consumer maniac!
Don't look at Qiao Sang's current material life so simple, she used to be a consumer demon!
Look at her in the stage of buying, buying and buying: want to learn to dive, fly directly to the Philippines to spend more than 10,000 examinations; want to learn yoga, spend 20,000 classes; after the fitness card is used several times, you can quietly wait for expiration; clothes, shoes, bags are even more according to the pound!
However, Josan later discovered that these items did not bring her long-term happiness, and on the contrary, she would be happier after giving them up.
Friends, this is Versailles, right? This is definitely Versailles!
Josan gave an example here, when she moved out of her parents' house, she originally wanted to take all the clothes over, but the problem came, the wardrobe was only so big, so she had to try to take all the shoe boxes first, only 3 pairs of shoes in the entrance, at that time Josan felt, "so comfortable"!
She suddenly realized that this was what she wanted, and then slowly broke off her clothes and shoes.
After a life of renunciation, Josan sometimes sees what he likes but won't buy. In her words, "I like it, but I don't have to have it."
In fact, when insisting on the theme of not consuming on the 116th day, Josan wanted to stop, she wanted to take off the hat of "no consumption", she began to dislike the word "no consumption", because as her life was exposed more and more, she gradually became the object of "consumption by the public topic" and became a "commodity".
Nowadays, "no consumption" has been changed to "low consumption", and the description is accurate and does not disturb the life you want to continue to insist on!
Although many people do not agree with Josan's minimalist lifestyle, there is really no need to talk about it from their own point of view, or criticize or question, and they can live comfortably.
It's all habits of life, respect and understanding!
After the introduction, many people are tempted to try, but the premise is to accept everything that this life brings, such as first learning to live with loneliness.
Qiao Sang said in "The Subtraction of Life" that when she came home from work, the door was very dark and empty, and only she herself would feel a little afraid; sometimes the mood came up and wanted to find someone to talk to, but her girlfriend had to accompany her family, go to the neighbors, knock on the door and find that people were not there, so that the layers of progress, the inner loneliness intensified.
In fact, in addition to "loneliness", Nichiren Jun hopes that everyone will understand before trying, what is the break-up? Do you really need to break away?
It is undeniable that the network is a master of life, the room is clean and tidy, a small amount of furniture, the layout appears to be a large and beautiful living space, consumption is more than a stroke of money, for people who now shoot two goods from time to time, the temptation is not a star and a half.
However, how many people blindly pursue "abandonment", constantly compress the bottom line of life for the sake of compression, and even think that renunciation is like this?
So, as Josan said, you must think about it before deciding to break away.
Understanding and respecting the lives of others and enjoying a life that suits you may be more comfortable!
Image Material:
CCTV "Subtraction of Life" Episode 2 Minimalist Girl
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