Things and facts speak volumes of the great amount of useless stuff we are exposed to: colorful bags, gadgets, widgets (on our desktops), hot starlets, Coca Cola, low fat diets and other irrelevant nonsense.
We live in a multilayered world of consumerism. We want to possess what we don’t need and yet we don’t understand what makes us willing to own stuff. To me, living is a voyage towards the simplification of what exceeds and makes things too complicated. In a sense, this is what is commonly referred to as “Deprogramming”. To me, “deprogramming” means recognizing our basic needs and living up to them, without creating a surplus.
By deleting and simplifying the tasks of our life we evolve
We evolve, creating a life built on our deepest core: ideas, personality, aims, ambitions and character. Afterall, this is what I already talked about in posts on self development and lifestyle design, right?
To make things clear, let’s take what’s fashionable for example: To me, a fashion is a constant testing of how willingly (or not) human behavior can adapt and react to the world outside the self.
It is what keeps you in a permanent state of fear, of feeling the need to keep up to date with something.
It also conditions the mass to behave in a certain manner, because it shows how social acceptability can be stretched and changed. A fashion is created to keep you outside of yourself. It’s created to keep you into constant noise. It is not created to make you think: you have to receive the information, without developing a positive or negative idea about it. Fashion is also Facebook, social networks, time wasting online services, crisis, fashion itself, whatever changes with no apparent reason and keeps you in fear and worry. With fashion, you have to be outside your inner self, worrying about the way your diamond necklace fits you or your hairstyle shines and gets commented by other fashion victims.
In nature, we are meant to act, not react to life.
We are a mass of consumers, consumed by the products they consume
This is the bare truth. We are totally wrong if we think that style, class, personality and looks have something to do with what we consume, how much we spend, the way we walk and the way we spend our time. Instead, start thinking about how much the outer world is controlling your life. How many fashions have made you a victim? Look at what you have now. Look at what you ARE. What are you?
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•.Consume less
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•.consume almost nothing (the essential)
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•.recycle and reuse what you can, where you want and how you want
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•.Get to know things
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•.cultivate your knowledge
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•.be unique
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•.let your actions make you a better “you” and inspire others
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•.Be selective about what you put into your mind
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•.Delete everything
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•.Keep what’s amazing and inspiring to you
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•.Start making something remarkable out of your life
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•.Be your best self.