A lot of people have wondered about it for ages, thousands of them have searched for happiness or still are searching for it. Is happiness a material thing, a spiritual one or a state of mind? Many people live their lives in a big house, wearing the latest fashion clothes, watching the newest tv, buying the latest notebook and so on, but are they really happy? Nowadays some people thought that a person who can live with few things, the necessaries ones, in simplicity, will be happier than the other one. The new motto is “less is more”.
Recently, it is spreading all over the world a new lifestyle. Very often we hear about people who decide to leave all the things they have: the house, the job, the car in order to buy a Westfalia van to travel all around the world. This new kind of life is called “Vanlife” and the people who decide to start that new adventure on the Volkswagen van open a blog on the internet and soon they become travel bloggers with millions of followers on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Travel bloggers start writing their personal blogs about their personal experiences of exploration and traveling. They leave behind money, surface things, material objects and find their happiness in a nomad lifestyle. Here we have the examples of John and Jayme, a young couple who decides to become vagabonds together enjoying small things they have, going from the mountains of New Mexico to the woods of North Carolina; Dustin and Naomi, another young couple who leaves their city life to a new wonderful adventure “If a situation isn’t working for you… change it! In 2016 we sold most of our possessions and bought Irie, a 1985 VW Vanagon – our first home.”
For ages, different historical personalities have influenced people’s thoughts about pursue of happiness related to few material things. For example, Sant’Agostino decided to leave all his property and all his things in order to pursue Christian faith and to find in poverty real happiness with God. The other example is Mahatma Gandi: “Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants” (Letters to Narandas Gandhi, Yeravda, 29th August 1930.)
In conclusion, it is not so important what or how many things you have in life, the important is if you know if those objects are very necessary for your happiness, but what is the real happiness? Every one of us knows the answer inside himself.
http://www.vanlife.com.au/vanlife-articles/2017/7/7/van-conversion-with
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