'The idea that wealth brings well-being stops us from focusing on the real sources of happiness, such as flow, contact with nature, relationships, and inner harmony,' explains SMTaylorauthor
People who live a life of voluntary simplicity with a minimum of possessions show high levels of well-being.
“I just don’t get it,” she remarked to her friend. “How can you get depressed if you live in a house like this? If I lived in a place like that, I’d never be unhappy for a moment in my life, ever!”. This is why so many lottery tickets are sold each week. But decades of research have shown little connection between wealth and well-being. Life satisfaction in the United States has remained at the same level for half a century, even though GDP has tripled.
For 95 percent of the time the human race has lived on the planet, we lived as hunter-gatherers. We were semi-nomadic, usually staying in a site for a few months before moving on. So it wouldn’t make any sense to accumulate possessions. They would have been a burden. So people lived lightly. So if anything, after tens of thousands of years of that non-materialistic lifestyle, it’s not natural for us to lust after possessions. If anything, the opposite is the case. I think that’s why it feels so great to declutter, to let go of possessions. It feels so right because we’re not meant to be burdened by possessions.
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