Welcome to my weekend wanderings. I’m the Roamer here at Traveling Wallet. I hope you enjoy these videos. I know when you make big goals you often need inspiration and motivation and that’s what I hope you’ll get here in these segments.
Do you feel like life is hard? Are you running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to climb some corporate ladder? So much to do so little time.
I often like to ponder such questions. Sometimes I don’t have all the words, or know all the right things to say. In these times I’m happy to defer to the experts.
In my head I made it a goal to include at least 3 videos for all my weekend wanderings but today’s video is so powerful and insightful it needs no other.
When I watched this video all I could think was yes.
I can relate with this speaker. I often think of and can’t understand why life is so complicated. Having what some would call silly wishes to live in the past. With an ideal that life was simpler, slower, and fuller all at once.
To me it seems the focus of this talk was having wisdom. Not just intelligence but wisdom. The wisdom to filter out all the noise in our current society. And my goodness are we living in a time of noise.
He admits it will be hard. People will call you poor they will think you’re crazy. I can see that. That is why I wish I was born in a different era because then I wouldn’t have to go against the grain. It would be normal.
But I see now with this video and this community that I can have that easy life. Today in this time, This ERA!
Passing it on to the next Generation
Part of living the easy life is breaking out of the endless cycle so I also wondered how can I teach my kids this. That the carrot we are told to chase is nothing but an illusion. I wish I could sit my son down and have this talks wisdom wash over him. But though this talk is powerful it would not engage my son enough to have him listen.
Children’s books are a great way to introduce ideas. I remembered of a book which hints at a similar philosophy. Unos Garden.
Do you have kids? I recommend you this book. It has wonderful art
In this book children journey through and can see the effects of over production. The effects it has on the people and on nature but it then also guides to a life of balance between people and nature. Essentially showing them living a much fuller simpler life.
Talk about counter culture.
Okay Okay so I guess I remembered I saw another video which touches on the same topic. So I will also include it here.
Another great example of simplifying life.
So to answer the question posed by the video, What are my basic human needs?
Freedom, Love, Learning and Growth….. Stripped down that is what I want to focus on here at the Traveling Wallet, but also what I want to strive for in my day to day life.
Freedom = Financial Independence (aka Early retirement)
Love = Parenthood( aka being with my family and raising my children)
Learning and Growth = Travel (new experiences, new people,new ideas and new perspectives)
Per the video food is a given basic human need, which is also applicable to me. 🙂 Another area that could fall under learning and growth.
So I guess equally applicable could be the tagline: Freedom, Love, Learning and Growth
I’m excited to take and share this journey with you. Most of us will take it a bit different. Both these people took a different approach then us FIers. They didn’t wait to have enough money to be free from societal constraints indefinitely. They jumped right in.
I hope these videos inspired you to keep on your journey and seek other who share your dream.
I had seen the first video but not the second. Good stuff. I don’t know why people love to complicate their lives. This becomes more apparent to me the older I get. I’m still a work in progress, but I’m getting there. Having less wants and appreciating all that I have no will untangle all that complication and stress. While I will still always have to work, I can at least not feel that daily stress of waiting for a paycheck.
I know I still complicate life unnecessarily but these videos are a good way to get back to center. Keep up your work step by step i’m sure you will reach a point of removing stress from the paycheck
Thank you for posting these videos. I really enjoyed them both, especially the first one. I’ve been thinking about a lot of the same concepts lately. We’re really working towards simplifying our life.
As all the pieces start coming together, it’s interesting to see two distinct paths. One is filled with constant busyness, working, consumerism, and stress. The other is simplicity, frugality, minimalism, and happiness. The latter sounds a lot better to me!
I’m glad you enjoyed them.
It’s striking because it really seems like life has gotten way more complicated than it needs to be.
I hope your journey continues and I hope we also keep on chugging along.