Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

by Joshua Fields Millburn

Authentic people have no agenda, and yet they have aspirations. Authentic people are trustworthy, and yet sometimes they fall short. Authentic people are awesome, and yet sometimes they are superficial. Authentic people care enough to listen, and yet sometimes they don’t hear everything. Authentic people can weather the storm, and yet they get wet. Authentic people are passionate, content, carefree, calm, kind, and helpful—and yet authentic people are still people, they are human beings, and thus they worry, possess doubt, and make mistakes and bad decisions. Authentic people are fallible. Authentic people are flawed. Authentic people are fearful. Authentic people are tempted by lust and greed—by all the trappings of this world. None of us is perfect, but we all have the capacity to be authentic, to remove the pretense and the facade from our repertoire and just be authentically ourselves, not the people we think we’re supposed to be.