Cool so you can agree that it wasn't an accident that there was zero physical interaction in the CC shopping scene (not a date btw) while the DD had plenty and the intimate hug at the church. They are literally a mile apart in CC. Care to explain how these are exactly the same?
Minimalism is one of the worst lifestyle trends of my lifetime and I'm glad I escaped it.
Over 15 years ago I bought into the concept. Boxed up almost everything and put it in storage. Kept a handful of current gen games on the shelf, a couple of posters on the wall, and that was it. Own less, be free, all of that.
And for a while I told myself it felt good. Clean surfaces. Nothing extra.
It only took a couple of years to break. I started missing things. Actual things sitting in boxes in a storage unit. Games. Movies. Stuff with history attached to it.
And I started noticing something else: everything around me had no character.
My space looked like a rental listing. Beige, empty, and cold. It could have belonged to anyone, which meant it belonged to no one.
That's the part nobody tells you about minimalism. It doesn't just remove clutter. It removes evidence that you exist. Every shelf you empty is a story you can't tell anymore.
So I went the other way. Pulled things out of boxes. Started collecting again. Started enjoying things again.
Now I sit in a room surrounded by 30+ years of games, consoles, and memories, and it feels more like freedom than an empty room ever did.
Keep your history.
Keep your hobbies.
Keep the stuff that makes your space yours.
That's not clutter. That's character.