Contentamento
Foto by StrudelMonkey under CC Licence
A minha idéia essa semana é abordar as diversas formas de ver e aplicar a simplicidade.
Ontem, por contratempos domésticos, não deu para acabar o texto do dia. Paciência.
Mas algo sempre aparece. O Leo, do Zen Habits, escreveu um texto e tanto sobre contentamento. Algo que eu gostaria de ter escrito: The Incredible Power of Contentment. É, sinteticamente, a filosofia de vida que tento seguir. Um pequeno trecho, que faz link com o assunto da semana:
Simplicity, of course, means many things to many people, but for me contentedness is at the core of simplicity. It’s about being content with less, with a simpler life, rather than always wanting more, always acquiring more, and never being content.
Simplicity means examining why you want more, and solving that issue at its root. At the root of wanting more is not being content with what you have. Once you’ve learned to be content, you don’t need more. You can stop acquiring, and start enjoying.
Now, I won’t claim to never want stuff. I wanted a Macbook Air and I got it. It’s helping me to write this post and this book right now. (However, in my defense, I waited more than a month before buying it to make sure I needed it.) But while I am not immune to wants, I have learned to catch myself now and then, and to examine why I want something. And then I try to tell myself that I already have everything I could possibly want and need. And that contentedness leads to simplicity.
O texto de ontem, sobre fotografia, será publicado hoje a noite.