The majority of us know how to get music from the internet. It's enjoyable, it's cheap, and even free sometimes. It improves our mood, it puts us on the mood, it lowers stress, improves health, helps us learn and recover. But if there's something frugality, simple living and minimalism teaches us is that we can truly do without things we thought we needed as a given.
For us simple livers, it's hard finding the balance between the obvious benefits of music and frugal material values. Still, not all of us are the same and have the same values. For example, some of us could do without music, and some could live comfortably in a fully equiped music studio. Additionally, not all of us can play an instrument, find a band to play or hit the nearest store to get our music fix.
Furthermore, with our music listening comes earbuds, headphones, earphone holders, cases, boxes, sound cards, mp3 players, speakers, amps, and, sometimes, even useless inbuilt mics. And for the CD and Vinyl buyers out there, this is often paired with other equipment for the full experience.
Now, the expensive experience of listening to the best media in the best way is probably questionable when trying to declutch life. As for the easy to get pleasure of free music and cheap earbuds, it sounds almost indispensable, but we can test our boundaries further, I believe.
In conclusion, I think that questioning the necessity of upholding this habit we probably raise to new grounds of simple living. If many of us have considered dropping the internet, our phones and gadgets to drive our attention to the real world, why not give this a try too? I'm sure it will be a nice and healthy exercise.
Submitted June 16, 2018 at 11:15PM by raschagas https://ift.tt/2MACes2
