Yes! I tell you what I’ve been guilty of in the past, not so much now because I’ve caught myself doing it and I’m stopping myself, and that’s turning everything I do into a content opportunity.
For example, spending a moment looking out across the landscape would ‘make a great Instagram photo’. No! Just enjoy it! Not everything needs to end up on social media or in a newsletter.
It’s a bit like all those people who queue up to see their favourite musician, but spend the entire time looking at them/ the performance through the lens of their phone instead of with their bare eyes.
My new motto is to be present in the moment, and I can honestly tell you, when you remove a phone and experience something IRL, it’s even more magical 🤍
As I approach my 60th birthday (January), I'm embracing stuff like this and learning not to feel guilty for doing so - randomly, I'm getting more done the less I guilt-trip myself.
These last few years have helped me decide what's really important to me, and I don't just mean the c-word. Just before lockdown, I was diagnosed with a small but feisty breast tumour (after losing weight for no obvious reason it turned up on a regular mammogram), with lumpectomy/ radiotherapy/chemo/ targeted therapy. Also, I now have osteoporosis, hiatus hernia (echoes of my Aunt Marjorie whose hiatus hernia turned into peripheral cancer 29 yrs ago). Finally, at 58 yrs, I was diagnosed as being in the autistic spectrum! It's amazing how strong I've been with "real stuff" considering how I stressed about minutiae of life.
We only get one life, and I've decided that I get to decide how I'll live it! As an autistic, I tend to march to my own beat anyway, I'll just stop letting others convince me that I'm weird (what's wrong with being weird anyway, as long as I'm not intentionally hurting anyone?)
Be as weird as you like! I'm weird too. And it's an interesting point you raise, that you're more stressed with the small stuff than the big - I feel you on that one.
Minimalism has been a great learning curve for me, as I concentrate on what is right for me and declutter the rest. I Get to learn who I really am when I tune out the random chatter of life. I'm lucky, I can make decisions for me (no-one else directly affected like partner/ kids/ parents) and my job as a hotel housekeeper means when I leave work that's it for the day (no emails or calls, unless it's to ask if I can cover a shift for someone).
It's so easy to escape into the countryside from where I live (Ulverston, Cumbria,UK) and I do this more and more.
Yes! I tell you what I’ve been guilty of in the past, not so much now because I’ve caught myself doing it and I’m stopping myself, and that’s turning everything I do into a content opportunity.
For example, spending a moment looking out across the landscape would ‘make a great Instagram photo’. No! Just enjoy it! Not everything needs to end up on social media or in a newsletter.
It’s a bit like all those people who queue up to see their favourite musician, but spend the entire time looking at them/ the performance through the lens of their phone instead of with their bare eyes.
My new motto is to be present in the moment, and I can honestly tell you, when you remove a phone and experience something IRL, it’s even more magical 🤍
Yes!! I've stopped taking many photos these days because of exactly that reason. Nice one Sophie!
As I approach my 60th birthday (January), I'm embracing stuff like this and learning not to feel guilty for doing so - randomly, I'm getting more done the less I guilt-trip myself.
These last few years have helped me decide what's really important to me, and I don't just mean the c-word. Just before lockdown, I was diagnosed with a small but feisty breast tumour (after losing weight for no obvious reason it turned up on a regular mammogram), with lumpectomy/ radiotherapy/chemo/ targeted therapy. Also, I now have osteoporosis, hiatus hernia (echoes of my Aunt Marjorie whose hiatus hernia turned into peripheral cancer 29 yrs ago). Finally, at 58 yrs, I was diagnosed as being in the autistic spectrum! It's amazing how strong I've been with "real stuff" considering how I stressed about minutiae of life.
We only get one life, and I've decided that I get to decide how I'll live it! As an autistic, I tend to march to my own beat anyway, I'll just stop letting others convince me that I'm weird (what's wrong with being weird anyway, as long as I'm not intentionally hurting anyone?)
Be as weird as you like! I'm weird too. And it's an interesting point you raise, that you're more stressed with the small stuff than the big - I feel you on that one.
Minimalism has been a great learning curve for me, as I concentrate on what is right for me and declutter the rest. I Get to learn who I really am when I tune out the random chatter of life. I'm lucky, I can make decisions for me (no-one else directly affected like partner/ kids/ parents) and my job as a hotel housekeeper means when I leave work that's it for the day (no emails or calls, unless it's to ask if I can cover a shift for someone).
It's so easy to escape into the countryside from where I live (Ulverston, Cumbria,UK) and I do this more and more.