Having “things” vs having “time”

I was reading a book called An Abundance of Less when something stood out to me. The protagonist of a story mentioned that she wished she had more time then goes on to mention that more people wish they had more things, than more time.

It made me stop for a moment, but it makes perfect sense in the context of whatever I have been watching on YouTube or reading about minimalism: so if you want more things then you need more money, and you busy yourself with work to buy more things, hence you don’t have much time and spend most of your waking hours rushing about.

Having more things also means having to take good care of those things, which is also why minimalists say they feel “lighter” when they start their journey by decluttering. The things you own really take up some space in the back of your mind, and somehow it makes you feel tired when you are surrounded by all the many things you own.

It struck me as a good rule of thinking to follow: to wish to have more time, instead of to wish to have more things.