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Minimalism, Freedom & Nomadic Living | Why Owning Less Could Save Your Mental Health · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello, everyone. Welcome back
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  to EyeOpener Society. Welcome back to another one of my solo episodes.
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  My name is Gary Dean. I'm with EyeOpener Society. Welcome.
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  I've been sitting a lot with myself in these past few days, and I've definitely
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  gathered a lot of stuff from source.
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  And I've been sitting with it and playing with it. And I've been deciding that
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  a lot of the stuff that we do in reality is completely unnecessary.
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  Now, one of those things, incredibly, is shelter.
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  We seem to have this love affair with real estate. Or even when we're renting.
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  You know, we're looking for certain things, things that are completely unnecessary.
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  Now, I've been thinking a lot about, you know, living a van life nomadically
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  and just getting around and seeing different things.
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  Just living out of a van alone takes away all of the unnecessary stuff that
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  you need. And that could go even further.
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  Many of these vans that are built up and even these motorhomes,
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  they have kitchens. Everybody seems to be obsessed with a kitchen.
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  You know, you could go very easily and pay anywhere between like $18 to $25
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  for a two-burner electric element that you could put away inside of a drawer
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  somewhere and then only take it out when it's necessary.
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  A couple of utensils, a plate, a couple of cups.
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  What more do you need? We overcomplicate every single thing.
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  Just by some mysterious reason.
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  Somebody told us we needed these things to live. We don't.
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  I've been following a lot of content, too, on TikTok.
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  And, of course, with my algorithm, I'm getting a lot of that stuff across my feed.
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  Especially stuff where people are living nomadically or they're living out in the woods in just a tent.
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  And that's it. They get by.
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  And they're truly happy.
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  And I keep believing the reason for that is just the fact that they don't have
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  so much that they need to worry about.
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  If I go out right now and take all my money that I don't have and I go spend
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  it on a bunch of stuff I don't need and I bring it all back into my huge apartment I don't need,
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  it just adds to your mental awareness all the stuff that you keep being track
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  of now and then we're always wanting more from there.
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  I could live out of the same clothes for about a week. It's not that bad,
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  as long as I don't dirty them up.
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  Undergarments, probably a different story. You know, you may have to change
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  those daily, but you could get a pack of underwear for, you know, probably $6, $7, right?
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  Why keep wearing the same stuff? You could wear a shirt for days on end.
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  And when you buy the right kind, you could wash this out in the rain.
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  And it's what it resists. So basically it dries on its own.
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  I'm finding all these little things to help better my life because at some point
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  I'm collapsing and I'm shrinking everything down.
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  When it's finally my time to go, I'm not taking anything with me.
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  So why do I need so much to have now.
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  We feel so good. Our bodies are so accustomed to feeling great whenever we buy
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  things that are so materialistic. We don't need them.
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  I think we'll start becoming much more happier when we could sit in a moment
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  by ourselves quietly and retain that moment because we're not worrying about
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  all this stuff that we have.
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  You know, we go out and buy bigger and bigger and bigger TVs.
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  But yet when we use our cell phones to do the same thing, these tiny little
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  things get probably better resolution than the biggest damn TV you have.
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  It's kind of sad when you really think about it, just where we become addicted
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  to all this materialistic stuff.
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  It's not good for our psyche. It's not good for our brain. I've spoken about
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  this before, but I'm going to speak about it again.
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  And I simply want to keep addressing this because I feel it's important we start
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  trying to teach each other,
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  that even if we have very, very little, we treasure that stuff more than we
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  do the stuff that we buy tons of.
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  Because we recognize the importance of having what we do have.
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  While it may be impractical that we all go out and live in tents, but is it?
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  It would collapse this entire real estate nonsense.
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  It would collapse all this stupid rental nonsense with all the rules and regulations
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  you gotta have and pay all this money in rent and we could kick you out at any
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  time and they hold that over your head.
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  We could kick you out, we could kick you out. That's great. It's wonderful.
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  Maybe that's what I want. Kick me out.
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  I'm not very keen on living on the rules when I'm paying so much money to live
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  within something which is basically a box. I'm just in a box.
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  And then I gotta have all these rules on top of it. And every month I gotta
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  shell out more and more for electric and gas and this and that.
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  I could cook fine on an electric little stovetop thing I could pay 20 bucks
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  for, and it works, and it works well.
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  But I could also light a fire in the woods and cook right on that fire for free.
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  I don't even need any kind of cooking utensils.
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  It's primitive, and that's what scares us.
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  But when we look back to when we started with electricity, it wasn't that long ago.
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  It wasn't thousands and thousands of years ago.
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  It was barely 100. I don't know exactly, but 100 years, even if it was 102 years.
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  It's not long, especially on the timeline when human beings have been around.
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  We'd done all of the living that we could have, with very, very little.
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  So join me. Join me on this quest for shrinking down all the stuff you have,
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  getting rid of a lot of materialistic stuff that just does nothing for you.
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  Become more in tune with nature, live outdoors more.
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  Travel around all you like. This will make you happy This will keep you complete
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  It would end this vicious cycle Of homelessness And you know Strengthening the
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  corporations That own homes.
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  I'm happy. I'm happy with no matter what I have.
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  I'm happy with the things that I do have. I'm happy buying stuff at times.
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  But in the end, when I really, really sit and think about it, I don't need it.
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  And I'm still happy. My name's Gary Dean. This is Eye Opener Society.
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