The secret to happiness? It’s not what you’ve been sold

One summer, I went to an orphanage in Honduras with just a few sets of clothes.

At the end of my time there, I realized how little I actually needed to get by. I left most of my clothes at the orphanage with the Honduran girls, and by the time I returned home, I was overwhelmed with the sheer volume of stuff I owned. It’s always a good reality check — a humbling reality check — to leave the luxuries of America, go to a third-world country, and then return with a new perspective on materialism.

A friend recently reminded me that “everything we own will eventually end up in the dump.” This stuck with me, because the pressure to buy things keeps

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