Simple Living, a voluntary choice
Many changes lately in my daily life… Sorting, getting rid of, recycling, giving, modifying, slowly adjusting habits to beliefs, etc. In short, trying to get back to the real things, to release the unimportant and unessential – and knowing that a move is in order this year gives a good motivation!
I discovered only in the middle of all this, while surfing on the net, that despite what some might say all this wasn’t really original at all but well known (in the sens of a minority of course – yes, it makes sense)(does too). I should have guessed when Reginakakou came last summer with lots of praise on a book about the art of living in a simple way…
So, I was unknowingly taking the path of the Voluntary Simplicity. What’s that? A way of turning to less possessions, getting rid of what’s not necessary, live with more space for real contacts and humanity – this way of living is often associated with ecology and turns its back to capitalism (and all the incentives of the market, free or not). Refusing to systematically turn to what we can buy and/or get, that which makes us become unable to take care of ourselves.
“Voluntary” does not make the name pretty but means it’s a choice, a way to define our own lives by ourselves – and not through commercials, for example. To reclaim power over your life instead of following the mainstream eyes wide shut.
The immediate benefit is getting more autonomy. When you realize you’re incapable of producing anything by yourself and that for whatever you want to do in your life you need to buy something or pay someone, it gets scary… Learning how to make things yourself has many advantages, and not only for yourself. And gives great satisfaction – or huge laughs when your first tests, for example of home-made bread, turn out to be total catastrophies!
More info :
Pour en savoir plus :
Voluntary simplicity on Wikipedia
I discovered only in the middle of all this, while surfing on the net, that despite what some might say all this wasn’t really original at all but well known (in the sens of a minority of course – yes, it makes sense)(does too). I should have guessed when Reginakakou came last summer with lots of praise on a book about the art of living in a simple way…
So, I was unknowingly taking the path of the Voluntary Simplicity. What’s that? A way of turning to less possessions, getting rid of what’s not necessary, live with more space for real contacts and humanity – this way of living is often associated with ecology and turns its back to capitalism (and all the incentives of the market, free or not). Refusing to systematically turn to what we can buy and/or get, that which makes us become unable to take care of ourselves.
“Voluntary” does not make the name pretty but means it’s a choice, a way to define our own lives by ourselves – and not through commercials, for example. To reclaim power over your life instead of following the mainstream eyes wide shut.
The immediate benefit is getting more autonomy. When you realize you’re incapable of producing anything by yourself and that for whatever you want to do in your life you need to buy something or pay someone, it gets scary… Learning how to make things yourself has many advantages, and not only for yourself. And gives great satisfaction – or huge laughs when your first tests, for example of home-made bread, turn out to be total catastrophies!
More info :
Pour en savoir plus :
Voluntary simplicity on Wikipedia
The Simple Living Network
Réseau québécois pour la Simplicité volontaire (fr)
Decroissance.info - Website on the subject, (fr)
Réseau québécois pour la Simplicité volontaire (fr)
Decroissance.info - Website on the subject, (fr)
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