RE: Becoming minimalist: when having fewer possessions means living a better life
Madam:
I enjoyed reading your thoughtful article. Coming from India, I can
not but help observe the common wisdom in our country that from
the moment you learn to say 'enough' more often than you say 'I
want', your happiness starts and further that this is the secret of
eternal happiness.
Having said that, it is also right to keep in mind that the process, if
taken to extremes, result in serious loss of demand for goods and
services which will in turn strike at the very roots of the economy by
turning large sections of society unemployed, ending up in social
turmoil.
The trick is to find the golden balance between our own need of
simplifying our life and the need for avoiding a collapse of society
as we know it.
