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Your Ordinary Life Isn’t the Problem. The Culture Is.
How to turn your ordinary life into an extraordinary one.
Do you know the feeling of not being enough?
Silly me. I bet you do.
After all, we live in a world that does not teach us how to love ourselves.
If anything, it glamorizes chasing after more likes, creating the best content to impress others. And it comes with a price — we lose the value of who we are.
Feeling like you are not enough is good for business.
You crave more. You buy more.
The more admiration we seek, the easier it is to manipulate us into buying stuff we don’t need.
Social media used to make me feel less.
Less interesting. Less captivating. Like my life lacked colours. Like I had not enough money to pursue my dreams.
We subscribed to a belief that life has to look a certain way to enjoy it.
You will impress others as long as you reach the upper echelons of the social ladder.
You will feel happy once you gather people around who adore and respect you.
The hamster wheel of never-ending improvement spins and takes you along for the hellish ride.
Simplicity can be epic.
Recently, I reactivated my Instagram account. I shared my travels and obsession with fine dining. I shared my writing.
When I returned from my travels, I caught myself thinking: I am running out of content to share. I felt ashamed of my ordinary life. What if people consider it boring?
Right away, I felt ashamed of my thoughts.
First of all, since when do I give a damn how others evaluate my life?
Secondly, I adore my ordinary life. And the ordinary does not stand for boring.
My ordinary life doesn’t suck.
The culture that wants me to feel guilty about my pace of life sucks.
Stars Hollow’s idyllic atmosphere is more alluring to me than Elon Musk’s hustle and dazzle.
