People are clutter too.

In my last post I was saying about gradually paring down until you get to the things you really love - well perhaps you shouldn't stop there.

Other blogs on Minimalism say that it is people who are important not things and of course that is true but people can be time wasters too and often the time spent with people who are not on your wave-length can be very frustrating.  Not all social intercourse is good for you and I find a lot of people talk about very trivial things: TV, the weather, clothes, food etc.

This can be a constant dribble of clutter into your mind and your mind needs to be clear and clean as well as your habitat.

It got me thinking about certain Asian old men who will live their lives normally then when they get to a certain age they cast it all off, family as well and go off into the wilderness.  That is difficult in our culture but perhaps by gradually not having so many interactions with people our lives can become quieter and calmer.