Simplify, simplify, Thoreau said. Few of us can drop everything and go live in a hut in the woods.
Life today is often complex and exhausting.
Depressed and anxious, we find solace in shopping. Buying things gives us a feeling of control over the chaos in our lives. The result is too much stuff. Inside every person who sheepishly declares I m just a packrat is a suffering soul that yearns for clarity and simplicity but doesn t know where to start. Our stuff seems to have a life of its own.