Review: Great principle!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 5, 2014
Author Vanessa Pagán sends out a tremendous message with her book about minimalism: it is indeed a humanistic strategy. It is a practice geared toward having more while needing less. In three wonderful chapters, the author helps us understand the concept behind minimalism: it is simply the ability to let go. Once a minimalist, you learn to let go of unnecessary clutter, of excess e-mails, of extra debt, of added stress…and all can be as simple as learning to recognize how the media and the marketing agencies try to force feed an unlimited amount of needless objects into our lifestyle.The reading is simple, concise, and focused. Pagán admits that a minimalist lifestyle will undoubtedly come with its pros and cons; some of the pros being the release of responsibility from gadgets and inert objects that puts weight on our communication, dynamics, and interactions. The cons, however, have more to do with the people around us than with ourselves. Our society has become entirely dependent on material things that are not needed; on technologies that supplement what our brains can fairly and easily do.  Yet, minimalism, as the author states, continues to be a perennial option to those who want to, literally, de-clutter both mentally and physically from unwanted energy.