Why we should support the rise of minimalism

Sandy Sanjaya
4 min readApr 27, 2020

I think everyone either heard or has already become a minimalist.

Minimalist proliferation in our daily life is everything but minimal. It seeps through our YouTube channel (Matt D’Avella, The Minimalists, The Minimal Mom), Netflix Watchlist, and books.

Though the definition varies, minimalism intends to make everything as intentional as possible. Be it our wardrobe, applications, decision, and spending.

It is interesting to explore a world of minimalism. But also to imagine what would happen if minimalism is the norm of future society. Thus, this story’s purpose is to highlight the good in the concept, not as far as to convince why you should adopt it. This also originated from an individual perspective, let me know what you think!

A minimalist world is a less judgemental world.

Truth be told, most of us buy stuff because of pressure. That is the common jargon that minimalist offers and, to some extent, a-hard-pill-to-swallow, the truth. Our lives are filled with incentives and direction to fill our insecurities from our families, relations, and even strangers. More often than not, this pressure is directed to material possessions. We do not only own them, but we identify as them. I am a tech…

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Sandy Sanjaya

Master’s Student in Nuclear Energy. Navigating a generalist life