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Today, is a day of minimalism.
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(Source: whiskeysoaked)
The beautifully dilapidated sculpture of the Soviet Yugoslavia
Go less, Do more
It seems so contrary, to sit at home and slow life down. (Yes, I’m having a Carrie Bradshaw moment). I’ve conscientiously stopped; a dead stop in the middle of the highway that is my life, my day to day routine. I’ve taken a cue from so many of my friends and just enjoyed the little things, like spending time with my family. Or spending time alone. Or listening to my music for hours. Or napping. Or working out. Just allowing my life to be de-stressed
I’ve done all the pretentious bourgeoisie things I can think to do like watch documentaries and create art and I’m more happy now that I’m doing less. I seem to get more out of the small moments in life and I’m happier. It was terrifying the first time I tried not seeing friends for a few days at a time. I just sat at home, cleaned, watched some so you think you can dance. Good times. But as I allowed myself to relax more into this doing less, seeing-less-routine, I began to think more deeply about what I want. About who I am.
Since graduating from college I’ve done what any sensible homosexual male would do, I partied my ass off. 3, 4, 5 days a week living the high life and enjoying all the stimulations that a well-socialized life affords. And I wouldn’t take it back for all the world, I’ve met so many great people. But I’m ready to stop running through life. I almost want to say I’m ready to stop driving my life and let the chauffeur take the wheel, but that wouldn’t be wholly accurate. I’m a capricorn and frankly will always have a little bit of that control freak in me, but I’m ready to be a more chill control freak. I don’t want to give up the journey, I’m just more ready to let other things distract me from my focus. I don’t want to be an accomplished 30-something with no stories to tell and no lessons learned. I want to listen, I want see the small moments, the little details and grow to understand people. I want to know the small eccentricities of my friends and the tell’s of the people I meet. I want to see the world and know that I have a perspective all my own and that I see things that other people do not, or can not or will not.
It’s the answer that led those who’ve been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
~President Obama, November 2008
(Source: scenes-from-my-hood)
