It’s not the size of your house, it’s how you live your life.
All of us in the Tiny House Community are familiar with and in some way intrigued by the idea that we don’t need a big house or a fancy car to be happy. It’s not about the house. It’s not about all the things, or lack thereof, that we put in them. To me, it’s about a state of mind. It’s about a practical way of living life that focuses on experiences, not things.
I live in a tiny floating home that is just big enough to carry my family and the belongings that make me happy. What’s nearest and dearest to my heart fits inside this 300-sf boat and I can take it all with me wherever I go.
Kenny Laubbacher recently made an incredibly inspiring video about his best friend, Jedidiah Jenkins who quit his job that he loved to ride his bicycle from Oregon to Patagonia at the southern tip of South America. Kenny joined him for a month and a half to ask him why…
In the video, Jed says he has met a lot of older people that tell him “my life went by so fast,” or “I just blinked and I was 80.”
Out of fear of losing a decade of his own time to routine, he decided to do something radically different. He has been living on his bicycle for a year now making his way South from Oregon to Patagonia.
He LIVES on his BICYCLE. And he’s been living that way for over a YEAR! Now, to me, that takes the cake for smallest tiny house on wheels. Jed carries what he needs on his bike. Now of course he uses a tent to sleep in, but his bike is really his home. To me, this is a whole new realm of tiny.
Jed says, “The routine is the enemy of time. It makes it fly by… It’s not about the bike. It’s about getting out of your routine and that can look like anything.”
Watch this 4-minute video and think about how it relates to you.
Is it really about the size of your house? Or is it about how you live your life?
You can follow Jed’s wild ride on Instagram @jedidiahjenkins
Kenny can be found on Instagram @kennyjamez
By Jody Pountain for the [Tiny House Blog]