When did the idea of wanting to live a less complicated life hit you? What built up to it?

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[–]runtis 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Good starter post!

I worked too much, but had nothing to show for my money because I had no time to do figure out what with it. So I just spent it on stuff. I was overweight, alcoholic, my personal life was in shambles. All my friends were work friends, or drinking friends.

I had stopped liking my job. I certainly hated my life. In short - I just had enough of it.

So I gave away all the stuff in my apartment. Did not have much anyway because I was hardly in it. And I left the country I was working in. I stopped working for about a year. I stopped spending money on stuff I don't need.

I finally watched TV and films I never had the time to see.

I bought a piece of shit boat that eats up my money but gives me projects to work on and something outside of my career industry to do.

I have a garden. I grow herbs, flowers, and some stuff for food. In the summer I had tomatoes and blueberries. My winter garden is struggling a little because it has been warmer. But everyday I have fresh rocket, lettuce, spinach, chives, basil etc. We just had a frost so I can pick some oranges.

I used to only read things for work. Now I have time to read, though I spent a lot of time on Reddit. But I don't spend a lot of time there now because of their censorship and "wokeness". I am part of the LGB community, and female, and not white - but the woke have become too intolerant. Now I look for my own sources and post here if I enjoyed something.

I eat healthy. I go to the gym (have been open for a few weeks now). Though I fell off the bandwagon during corona isolation I am getting back into the swing of things, and back into form.

I actually have time to see family. Though sometimes I prefer not too. Can't pick them...

I am working again, but have a better approach to balancing that now. But now I am saving money instead of buying all the things.

What about you?

[–]forgottenpasswordguy[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Heck yeah, welcome! I'm in my mid 20s and while it wasn't such a huge transformation and breaking point like yours, I simply started to realize that I am always trying to bite off more than I can chew. I wanted to dive into so many different hobbies, watch or read every single interesting thing that I came across, take on every project that I could, work out, be a student, work many hours, etc. I was half-assing every category in life and wasting time burnt out, all because I wanted to take on so many different things.

Half of those videos in my watch later playlist weren't that interesting, I don't need to tinker with my daily driver and my project car, I need to stop telling my friends that it has been a busy year, etc. I don't have it figured out yet, but I do think I'm heading in a better direction!

The gardening sounds great, I'd love to get into that when I have a place of my own. I've finally started getting consistent with the gym too, it has always been a phase that came and went every 3 or 4 months, I hope to keep nailing it and become my ideal self.

[–]runtis 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I just garden in pots and containers mostly. The oitrus trees were already here. You can start a garden!

I am the same, i start books that I never finish because I want to read something else. I have trouble watching movies because I want to go do something else. There's so much to see and do, it can be overwhelming.

I'm older than you and I'm still working on my ideal self. I'm glad you made this sub.

[–]forgottenpasswordguy[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'll get to the gardening thing for sure one day! And yep, there is too much to do. Anyways I'm glad you like the sub and hope you stick around. It was one of my favorites from the other site, so one of the first ones for me to copy as time permits.