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Life in the real world kind of sucks. Life is a struggle... let no one else tell you otherwise. I slowly realized my privileged life at home. One I had taken for granted.
I missed not having to do my laundry, get my food, then cook my food. Dust and clean the house, and thousands of other chores. I did them once at a while at home, but not all of them together, when living life like an independent adult. I wished there was a Survival basics 101 class taught in high school.
At least, we didn’t have to worry about living arrangements like proper adults (thank goodness!). I really had the best roommate in the world in Ellie. She was open to whatever idea I suggested, the latest being trying to live life like a minimalist.
The only problem was that we were both hopeless at it.
“I really like how we are not wasting our money getting things that we don’t need, Ellie. Living with less makes life so much stress-free and simple.”
“You said it, Cassie. We are helping the environment and reducing our global carbon footprint as well. Must do it to save the planet!”
“Yeah, only shopping at thrift stores for clothes is not bad at all. I don’t even miss the online massive sales.”
“Or the shoe sale that is going on.”
“I didn’t even know about that.”
This is usually how the conversation started with good intentions, but by the end, both of us would look at the websites with the aforementioned sales. We then secretly ordered something as well. Both of us would then hide shopping bags in our closets, after our online orders arrived.
Sigh. At least we were trying.
As a superstar, Ellie later became better at minimizing. She travelled the world with only two suitcases and got designers to dress her for free.
By then, designers would compete aggressively for Ellie, and she chose sustainable and eco-friendly fashion. Many designers had a sustainable fashion line, just so Ellie would become their client.
The seeds for the minimalist lifestyle were already sown long before, when we were teenagers, trying to be responsible adults.