This year someone I know was not doing well so I was trying to help them with something yet I wasn't really taught how to do this thing well myself.
Take for an example, maybe this person couldn't cook for themselves and I was tasked with cooking for them, although I hadn't been taught how to cook and have taught myself to do so by reading online and watching videos and through trial and error.
So I only have so much confidence with the skill I developed myself and the system I set up for myself, while this person's system was different than mine (say they were allergic to peanuts, so I would have needed to always be on the lookout for peanuts being secretly added to things, which I wouldn't have even thought about in my own system of cooking).
So I guess it's a question to me of how to 1. develop better life skills, 2. how to work other people's systems if you aren't aware of all of what their needs are and 3. how to identify and close gaps in your "life skills" skillset.
Any input would be appreciated
The things you own will end up owning you.
average consoomer
hardcore minimalist
to... now like maximalist or something, I don't know how to describe it
Problem with minimalism is it feels like I can't rely on society for much, so I end up thinking I need to "hoard" a bunch of "stuff" that I won't be able to get other places
Essentially during covid everything was shut down, so in normal times maybe you can rely on a store that has a "warehouse of stuff" but due to things like covid and people banning people, society felt less reliable, so I've wanted to hold on to more "stuff" and "become the warehouse"
this is still probably pretty moderate compared to some "consoomers" but I don't feel as minimalist anymore if that makes sense?
I feel like a lot of hobbies or things in life like with self-sufficiency require a lot of raw materials and tools and it just ends up being a whole lot of - seemingly necessary - "stuff"