Archive for June, 2011

June 25, 2011

The Personal Dilemma

by Lynne De Rien

It’s amazing how one can know that something is good for oneself, yet there’s always that brief hesitation–consideration for the bad thing.

Some have it worse than others, and it applies in many different situations.

My personal dilemma is choosing water over juice. I know that water is good for me. It hydrates the body and it’s thirst quenching too without the calories. But it doesn’t taste that great–it doesn’t have a taste at all.

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June 21, 2011

Minimalism

by Lynne De Rien

This is an interesting topic to me and I hope someday to become one. And by one, I mean a minimalist.

Basically a minimalist is someone how limits their paraphernalia to only what’s necessary.

Wow, I love the word paraphernalia.

Anyway, often the common image of a minimalist is someone living out of a backpack with, for example, 100 items or less. I used to think too that the less possessions you had, the more of a minimalist you were, but that’s not necessarily true.

Minimalism isn’t literally defined as how many possessions one has. It’s a philosophy–a way of life–and even if you have a million things you can still be a minimalist, as long as you truly believe that you need those million things.

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