I want less, to have more inside [Esp-Eng]

Sometimes having more things is synonymous with having more responsibilities and sometimes anxieties. Just this week I was reflecting a little about that, I grew up in an environment in which my family made a lot of effort to have the necessary, not always the money was enough for things that perhaps could be a small luxury, easy to have grown up in this way could become something that shaped my way of thinking, that made me want to have more and more things.

Happily I learned over time that the more things we have also comes with the responsibility to take care of them and maintain them. Sometimes as a joke from people close to me have made jokes that "money does not give happiness but how I would like to be crying on a yacht", yes it is very funny, but if we get a little serious, while money gives us some stability, the more we have of it the more anxiety we can experience for fear of losing it or the fear of it being taken away from us.

Now speaking from my experience, a couple of posts ago I told you that for now I live in a house that has its own furniture that belongs to the owners of the house, furniture that I can not vote or give away as I would like, although these possessions are not mine directly, if they were not in the place where I live things would be a little different, to start cleaning would be much easier, since the furniture ornaments and everything else accumulates a lot of dust and it has to be cleaned.

But on the other hand it would make me very, very happy to decorate the house where I live as I want to do it, soft and neutral colors with just a couple of furniture that are the only thing we need to sit, this would help me to keep the house always clean and it would not be so difficult to do it. I have a couple of ideas in mind of how I would like the living room to look like since I have given it a lot of thought. I can't do it for now though, because there is more furniture than I would like.

On the other hand something that perhaps would also fall into the category of "possessions" could include the emotional burdens that we sometimes have to deal with, a couple of years ago we committed to take care of a house since its owners had to take care of some business elsewhere, this is a big responsibility for me and for me, we do not force ourselves to fulfill it in the best way possible, however, it has become a great burden for us, because of what I mentioned before of not being able to have it in our style, but also because sometimes it prevents us from doing certain things.

Since she is under our care we can't leave for too long, we can only go out for a couple of weeks or a little bit more when we go on trips and not so often, although we would both love to be able to travel every now and then both the economy and the responsibility of taking care of the house we are in prevent us from doing so. If we didn't have this "possession" maybe we would travel a little more and enjoy a little more being in contact with nature, and the simple things in life that fulfill us so much.

However, these are small desires that we save for a little later. They do not at all become reasons to have negative attitudes or to prevent us from focusing on what is most important. We try very hard to do what we can with what we have and when we can't we try even harder so that we can a little later and I think that is the most important thing, to enjoy the simple but essential things in life and appreciate what is most important.