Learning to live the simple life is a process

I finally got to read some in the book "Voluntary Simplicity" over the last couple of days, and it has already helped me in this journey.

It is a process, I was raised middle class if not upper middle class, by parents that had excellent credit and knew how to use it.

We had just about everything we wanted and definitely everything we needed.

Now here I am in a process of becoming a minimalist, i don't want stuff I want to grow my own food, connect with people at deeper levels, all the stuff I feel like I need to do.

But it is not easy, I have lived in a very consumer driven country and I work in retail which obviously needs me to want people to spend money.

This is going to take time and it is frustrating I find myself wanting the latest gadget and honestly I could afford at least some of them. I choose not to do it, it is not worth it spending more money on something I think will make me happy.

but then my friends are still buying stuff, the ones who still have jobs, and trying to get more stuff.

This is not an easy road and I have barely started down it.