less is more.

Less is more.

It's 2:12am and I literally was just doing what you see in the above photo.  The sad part is that photo is a magnet on my refrigerator RIGHT NOW -  when I bought it I thought it was a funny.  In reality it's me.  

I have my excuses for raiding the refrigerator at this hour - it's Ramadan so I cannot eat from sundown to sunset so I have to eat at these god awful hours.

Staring into the fridge I started to think how I was not going to write in my blog tonight as I am pretty exhausted.  However, while staring my all time favorite statement "less is more" comes in my mind.  We all experience this, we buy too much food from the grocery store to only feel obligated to eat it.   Or perhaps we do not eat it and end up wasting it?  That sense of guilt of wasting caused me to eat more - however I should learn to just buy less.

As I continue my path with blogging, this has been super fun so far and something to look forward to, I want to go in depth into my life to inspire.  In reality I really do not like social media and am way traditional, I would rather take things back to writing letters where there was actually meaning.  However it's come to grow on me and with anything it's all about the intention.  In terms of sharing my life I really, really do not want to (kicking and screaming) as I fear that people will use it to critique, judge etc.  However that is an insecurity that I have been battling with since growing up, I realize that the impact through social media and my words to other people definitely outweighs my shyness.  My whole life I have been asked if I was an actor and/or told I should be on TV - well this is my baby step to the media, next will be videos (ahh).  Any maybe that will be it...

So back to the "less is more", it's something that I have always felt my whole life as I despise clutter.  If you were to walk into my home you would think it's a showroom because everything has a place.  However just when I thought you couldn't have "less" I have reevaluated my entire life.  

"A cluttered room is a cluttered mind - the more "stuff" the more holes you have filled to avoid yourself and the truth" - ME

So here I am going through everything - starting with the refrigerator and working my way to my closets, my drawers, etc.    I feel like my entire life I was told I "needed" all this stuff to survive and in reality it just was bought to fill me up in some other way.  As I begin to tear away the necessities I am learning about myself, similar to therapy, tearing away the thick layers of myself.

I encourage all of you to try it - start small and go through a drawer and get rid of what you do not actually need.  Let's discuss (nina@ninaroshelle.com)


...to be continued