{"id":508,"date":"2010-07-16T01:52:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T08:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterfever.com\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2010-07-16T04:49:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T11:49:12","slug":"im-a-minimalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/16\/im-a-minimalist\/","title":{"rendered":"My Minimalist Liftstyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Peter's<\/a><\/p>\n

When I’m out at social gathering or when the the subject comes up about my life, I tell people that I’m\u00a0living a minimalist lifestyle<\/a>. Most people’s reactions are either “interesting” or “I think you are\u00a0full of shit because\u00a0you live in California.”<\/p>\n

I always thought to myself if I had all the money in the world, what would I do with it? Typically, people would say buy a mansion, give money to charity, friends, family and buy all the toys in the world. At a young age that was my response, but now I understand that buying everything would not\u00a0make me feel any better. The more you own; the more it owns you<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The real question is after you buy everything, then what? That question stuck with me for a long time and it got me to realize that it is the little things in life\u00a0that make me happy. The expensive things I bought had no meaning and brought me no memories. It is like buying an overpriced car for the first time; you love the car for the first two months then it becomes just a thing that takes you from point A to point B.<\/p>\n

I want to be free<\/em>. I want to feel that I can pack up my bag and catch a flight to anywhere in the world. I use to clutter my house with things. But after I donated most of my belongings, I felt more relaxed and more comfortable with myself. I\u00a0now have a hiking bag full of clothes, a red table, two chairs, a blow up mattress and a sleeping bag (and a laptop to write all of you). This is what I call Living the Good Life<\/em>. I know MTV Cribs won’t be\u00a0knocking on my door anytime soon, but that is ok. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Right now, Life is Great<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I’m out at social gathering or when the the subject comes up about my life, I tell people that I’m\u00a0living a minimalist lifestyle. Most people’s reactions are either “interesting” or “I think you are\u00a0full of shit because\u00a0you live in […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[140,141,49,50,21,142,145,143,138,139,144,41,11,3,10,146,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-daily-update","7":"tag-air-bed","8":"tag-back-pack","9":"tag-gay","10":"tag-gay-asian","11":"tag-hiking","12":"tag-hiking-bag","13":"tag-i-want-to-be-free","14":"tag-life-is-great","15":"tag-minimalist","16":"tag-minimalist-liftstyle","17":"tag-mtv-cribs","18":"tag-personal-trainer","19":"tag-peter-fever","20":"tag-peter-le","21":"tag-peterfever","22":"tag-red-table","23":"tag-www-peterfever-comblog"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZ6qn-8c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}