Seeking a simple life [View all]

[Flaxbee]

(If you click on the link, there is a video interview that starts automatically - I personally HATE that - prefer to click to start, rather than have something start automatically. Anyway, just fyi)

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/seeking-a-simple-life-20120708-21p6f.html#ixzz20S3GBvM6

Stepping off the career treadmill and embracing a life less harried need not be as hard as some fear.

[WHO] Greg Foyster, former advertising dynamo, exploring the burgeoning Simple Living movement
[WHAT] Documenting in a blog and book people's decisions to change lifestyle
[HOW] Riding 4000 kilometres through Australia with partner Sophie Chishkovsky

SO many people experience a nagging, gnawing apprehension that they are not living the life they ought. Philosophy, it can be argued, is rooted in asking the question of how should one best live; as an individual, as part of the broader community and, indeed, as part of the world.

In a lamentably large number of cases, angst about the progress of one's life is not the result of poor decisions; it's primarily a function of mongrel circumstances. Lack of opportunity, economic hardship, homelessness, addiction, mental and physical illness and bastardry by others trap people in misery. In still other cases, of course, people do find themselves suffering the consequences of bad choices.