-[man 1] Stuff. -[woman] Stuff. [man 2] The accumulation of stuff.
Stuff is contributing to our discontent in so many different ways. [man 2] We never really stop to question, "What is essential? What is necessary?
How much of the stuff is actually adding any value to my life? " [man 3] We have the opportunity to have so much. Anything you can think of, you can get on your doorstep.
Now within 24 hours. That's almost like magic. [man 2] What if you removed one material possession from your life each day for a month?
What would happen? [man 3] I think we should be allowed to say, "I thought this is the life I wanted, but it's not, so I'm gonna start over. " [man 2] Our memories are not in our things.
Our memories are inside us. [man 1] Both of us grew up poor. The front door here.
[man 1] We really never had enough. I tried to fill that void the same way many people do. Chasing the American dream, it cost me so much more than money.
[man 2] I might have been living the American dream, but it wasn't my dream. Minimalism changed my life. It's given me the opportunity to be that person that I used to just talk about being.
This deep knowing that all I was searching for, I already had it. Friends and family have acknowledged a profound change in me. [man 3] The reason the message of minimalism is so powerful is because we're bingeing on all the wrong things and dying of hunger for the things that really matter.
