I have always considered myself to be a person of very simple needs. Although I wonder if the root cause is sheer laziness. You know the more you complicate, the more energy you spend to resolve things. The more you want, the more you have to work. The more you try to lace up the words with lies, with sheer magnitude, the harder it is to maintain and keep track of it. Simple living might begin with laziness, yet it ends up in giving freedom.
Our basic needs are food, shelter and clothing, yet we end up having a dysfunctional relationship with food, where every morsel we put in our mouth is a guilt ridden pleasure. With the cuisine of the whole world at our disposal, our tastes have been spoiled for a variety of exotic at times expensive foods. Most of the food that is easily accessible is also more laden with chemicals than nutrition. We end up buying big houses, and end up staying less and less in those houses and staying out and working more and more. Houses are shelters, we make them homes with our warmth and personal touch, yet we seem to be forgetting that very basic concept.
Simple living does require a tremendous amount of initiative. Before we know luxury becomes a habit and habit a lifestyle and before we realize it we are a slave to luxury. It is necessary from time to time to just evaluate our needs and wants to make do with pleasures that don't cost money, joys that cannot be bought. To sum it all up :
Our basic needs are food, shelter and clothing, yet we end up having a dysfunctional relationship with food, where every morsel we put in our mouth is a guilt ridden pleasure. With the cuisine of the whole world at our disposal, our tastes have been spoiled for a variety of exotic at times expensive foods. Most of the food that is easily accessible is also more laden with chemicals than nutrition. We end up buying big houses, and end up staying less and less in those houses and staying out and working more and more. Houses are shelters, we make them homes with our warmth and personal touch, yet we seem to be forgetting that very basic concept.
Simple living does require a tremendous amount of initiative. Before we know luxury becomes a habit and habit a lifestyle and before we realize it we are a slave to luxury. It is necessary from time to time to just evaluate our needs and wants to make do with pleasures that don't cost money, joys that cannot be bought. To sum it all up :
1. Simple living begins with simple pleasures. Finding joys in the everyday living, a sunset, wild flowers, or simply the gurgling laughter of a child. Joys that are free and abundant, joys whose only source are you.
2. It is differentiating our needs from our wants. The more we are clear about what is necessary and is just our need to gratify our egos, The less dependent our happiness is on others, on things that money can buy, the easier it is for us to sustain the source of happiness. Simplicity is not living in poverty, and it definitely does not include us to abhor money or worldly possessions, it is recognizing joys in everyday living.
3.It is balancing our work and personal life by looking into the reason as to why we are working and developing an appreciation of life with your unique pair of eyes.
4. It is all about keeping away from drama, streamlining your personal time and finding joys in everyday small joys.
5. Simple living is ultimately all about being content,all about going back to the basics and knowing when to stop.
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