Hello, I am currently 21, soon to be 22, Fine Arts student. Sorry for the introduction paragraph that follows, just want to state how I view simpleliving and try to interpret it in my daily life. Sorry for the long post. tl;dr at the end of the post Sorry for mi engrish not first languago.
I've always liked a more simple style of living for a lot of reasons, but the ultimate evidence for me was an "argument" I had with myself. The notion that we always want more than we currently have means that we will never be satisfied because there will always be more out there to get, as well as that there is no goddamn way that our ancestors could have been even at the least a little happy. At first I had a little trouble understanding how can someone live a simple life since it's in our nature to always want more, but that question quickly faded away by understanding that there are things that are worthy of sacrificing and looking for more, things like knowledge and ultimate truth. So simple living is all about that, decluttering all the meaningless noises that one has in their life in order for higher values to come forward. So instead of focusing your mind on how to make money in order to buy a car, phone, whatever, you focus it on this mathematical/physics/medicine problems so hopefully, when you leave this place, you can hand this world to your children a little brighter than it was.
I live abide by these rules in my life, even though growing up the distractions around me were countless, and my parents did not know what effect all these distractions the late 20th-21th centure could cause to someone, I still grew up and understood all that, and here I am trying to escape from this world of easy and fast pleasure even though I used to be extremely part of it, still have a lot to learn but I am in a good road I think.
I want to ask, how can someone survive in this world that is moving so extremely fast without any superior plan to making this world a better place (quite the opposite, everything is moving so fast and at the same time we are not doing any favors to ourselves, others, and the planet)? I am not losing hope, just trying to understand. For example, many jobs nowadays "require" to advertise yourself in facebook, and I am experiencing this in first hand, since I want to work as a concept artist for the animation industry and I have to be persisent in posting stuff almost daily in my facebook page and couple of other sites, even though that is the bare minimum I can do to promote myself, there are at least 3 other sites I could be posting, but consciously I said that I prefer to have less of a "fan-base" rather than getting my mind bussy with posting online stuff, managing all that etc.
Also, in personal relationships (talking about living without facebook/messenger), I find it difficult ( not necessarily to maintain friendships, the few ones that could not be maintained because there was no fb/messenger were obviously not friendships) but to keep up with the events surrounding things, it's like I am detaching myself, some small details now, some details later and they add-up. There were many times that I hang out with my buddies and they talking about something that I have not heard, or an "inside" joke, and it's not that they're bad friends or that they keep me out of all that, I understand their point of view; they said something on messenger, send a photo, meme, something, and thus an inside joke was born. And take note I am from a place which is not so heavily fast and filled with tons of distractions, it's a simpler place, I see my friends almost daily and they sometimes they show me what they talked about the previous night, or "look at that, "x" sent me this" etc. But sometimes they forget, I get it and it's completely normal. Many times where I considered of having messenger (definitely not facebook, just messenger), just for this type of things.
But still, this makes me feel detached, I sit there and think, "even if they did not show me what they said last night, would I care? People were living without photos for thousands of years and they still managed it, some would argue better than us, why do all of a sudden I need it? If I need this device, this thing, in order for me to be complete, don't I make it my messiah?(metaphorically speaking - always)", like this whole new world distractions and all that seems that has played all of us a really bad game, of easy and fast pleasure with no higher sense of purpose (hence the depression epidemic). I've told my friends my Point of View, they seem to understand and somewhat agree, but they're not willing to give up their comforts in their lives. (understandable).
So, how do I survive? How to feel fullfiled in all these important aspects of my-someones life, both work related and friend related ? (Obviously I am focusing on friends more, because I am willing to understand that work is work, and working 12h/day in the cropping fields is much worse than sitting inside a coldish room -is it?-).
tl;dr: Nowadays, jobs, friends, partners, requires you - even if not directly - to become a part of this world going so extremely fast without any sense of purpose, how to escape all of this, and most importantly, how to survive if you choose such a life.
ps: just a song I like, by the Highwaymen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFSA8-pxrqc
Submitted September 10, 2018 at 09:03PM by IwishIwasaPainter https://ift.tt/2x2mvuS
