Voluntarily simple

Author: Ryan
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: We have an increasing number of tools to improve efficiency and provide convenience, and an ever-growing array of luxury items quickly turn into everyday essentials. There are more refined and elaborate decorations, more choices, and trends that are pursued and forgotten at an ever-faster pace. Owning all of these should be a form of happiness. Everything we own should make our lives easier and freer, yet we are overwhelmed by what we possess. In a consumer society, more and more people are starting to escape the city and choose to live in the woods or in rural cottages. What exactly is attracting them? With a calm and composed writing style, John Ryan describes the benefits of living a simple life in today's overcrowded and complicated world, and discusses how to find a balanced simplicity without conflicting with the outside world.