THE SIMPLE LIFE SERIES
Is a Simple Life an Easy Life?
The simple life isn’t necessarily an easy life, just look at the farmers of the 18th and 19th-centuries who settled the great plains. they had a simple life but it wasn’t an easy life by far.
Is a simple life an easy life?
If you ask a hundred people, you will get a hundred different answers. The answers will range from living a minimalist life to homesteading to living off the grid to who knows what.
Through much of human history, frugal simplicity wasn’t a choice but a necessity, hence, it was also deemed a moral virtue.
If in your mind these are correct then who am I to say you’re wrong.
But . . .
Living the simple life isn’t just about having less material possessions although in a way it is and it isn’t. The pursuit of a simple life is about rejecting what is unnecessarily complicated.
It’s about pursuing people over things, enjoying the small things in life, and no longer chasing more, more, and more. It’s about being happy with what we have.
You see, part of living a simple life can be about less possessions but I want…
