Comfort in Simplicity

Chicago weather is bipolar as usual. We want to always assume "nice weather" is 40-60 degrees Fahrenheit. That kind of weather! Why not? It is nice because we feel comfortable. We don't have to shovel the snow, we don't have to wear our thick, heavy coats and the list goes on. 

It's the same with life. We always assume that life should always be nice and we create a box full of good expectations to our life but like the weather, it will always be unpredictable. 

We wake up every morning with a routine built in us. It's like embedded to our system that this is how our body should work and this is what we should do. A change thereof over the weekend or a day off means liberty. We almost want to say thank you when we get sick because we have time for ourselves all day. And after a fast recovery, we rant and say, I don't want to do this anymore... We got stuck to the same old routine and prison. Then why are we still doing it anyway? Is it because we need to survive day by day? So, it all boils down to money.

What's with money that we have to chase for it all our lives. Has it become that powerful or has it always been powerful? You need to do something but you can't because you don't have any money. You have to go somewhere but you can't because you don't have any money. You want to be liberated but you can't because you need money while others want to be liberated because they have a lot of money.

Let us go back to the question, Why are we still doing what we are doing now?Why are we working? Is it really because we need to survive? If it's about survival, we can survive living a simple life away from hustle and bustle. However, the rich countries doesn't seem to have that kind of freedom. That's probably why the happiest people on earth can be found in poor countries. 

We can never find true happiness in comfort. 

It's not the money that will liberate us but our simple choices in life that will.