Trying to live slower to improve my mental health

  • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I’ve thought about this to, I’m doing quite well financially, not rich, but rich enough where I could buy a humble couple acres in the countryside and do sustenance farming/gardening while following my hobbies and doing small work to sustain myself slowly rather than working my big corporate job and paying a mortgage and running the capitalist treadmill

    I haven’t made the decision yet, but I’m building towards it

    I have a nice, but small, garden in my backyard with a hammock, and I find myself escaping to it whenever I have a spare moment because its one of the very few places I feel calm and happy and meaningful - and eating veggies, herbs, and flowers strait from the garden, from your soil and labor, is something that truly is special and not reproducible at any store or restaurant - no matter how fancy

    I think I’d rather live slowly and simply and humbly with my garden and hobbies, than how I’m living now rushed, complexly, hollowly in the city with my corporate job

    • daskye@fedia.ioOP
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      22 hours ago

      @[email protected] That’s awesome :) I’m happy for you - even if you don’t get to that final goal, all the steps you’re taking towards it will improve your life surely.

      Also want to note for anyone reading this that you too can live slowly in many ways even if you’re not doing well financially.