Money Changed My Hobbies In A Very Interesting Way

Hello my dear friend…
As we get older, i think that its only natural that we started to use our brain to sort of all things in our life. The reckless me, she was 22 years old. It was barely 8 years ago since i am now a 30 years old lady. She was quite wild, maybe because she was living in poverty so the moment she get the taste of money she was kinda getting stray away from the right path. She works hard day and night to earn money, she works hard day and night to spend it too. I let her be, she was just fulfilling her inner child. I believe that she can go back to her roots so i let her have as much fun she needed before she can growing it out. She stopped when she was 28 years old, it was 2 years ago. Its not so bad, right?

I have a lot of hobbies, such as travelling, reading, making new friends, make up, fashion, perfume, etc. When i had money, the hobby that used to be cheap can turn into an expensive hobby. I dont know but this theory might be able to be applied to a lot of hobby. Our hobby can infringed and aligned with our effort to live a minimalist life when we let them be, if we let them to influence it. I will share some of my experience with this post. Travelling needs money but we dont really need a lot of money to be able to travel. We can keep it minimal and simple if whaf we’re looking for is the travelling experience. I used to only carry one small backpack to travel, book the cheapest flight available, trying to befriend strangers i met in a new country so i can sleep in their house, survive with one meal of nutritious food a day, walk everywhere or at least using a free public transportation, etc. The more i have money, the more i changed such as staying in a private villa or a luxurious room, eating in 4 cafes in a day, asking the traveller i’ve met to stay with me so she can save her money, book the fastest flight no matter the price, using taxi without thinking, etc.

There is another hobby i want to share that might not aligned with minimalist lifestyle. I love perfume, more than perfume i think that i love the feeling of smells good the most. I think that it went back to when i was younger i was always been told that i smelt bad, eventhough i already washed my body twice a day and wear deodorant. Truth to be told, i was feeling fine being told like that, it was a good critism. I was not angry or feeling hurt by it. I’ve been told those things everyday. I am just realizing that now that i am older that eventhough i thought i was fine, it might wiring something in my brain that i should always smells good. I should smells so good that when i enter a roon, the room will be filled with my scents. It was kind of became an obsession. The only thing that can help me smells as good as that are perfume and only perfume. It makes me only prefered a strong perfume scents. Now, when i go out i will need a strong perfume as my base such as oudh, and then i layered them with sweeter perfume such as roses. Since i love to layering perfumes to achieve the scents strong enough to me, i always needed more than 2 perfume in my staple. This was also a big problem when i started to have money, i started to buy a designer perfume such as Dior and Chanel which was hundreds of dollar for a bottle. Nowadays, like i said in the beginning i already sorting out my hobbies so i still have 3 - 4 bottles in my collection at a time but most of them are perfume from local and affordable brand. Now, i only bought a new one when i finished a bottle rather than buying anything piqued my interest. I feel like a grown up now, and i will always try to find a way to life my life in a better way filled with no regrets.