Silly golivudskie movies, weird hacks on the internet, books about the work of 4 hours per week / month / year have become very popular on the tail of a new way of thinking, which was called downshifting. If you think downshifting daily nakurke under the palm trees in Goa or the life of Thai farmer in the barn for $ 100 a month, you just narrowed your contact with the world to the animal and primitive existence. Below we offer you an article that is downshifting in fact, and what problems it solves, and what - no.
Useful for reading will both corporate ties, to ponder a change of scenery, and those who are already under a palm tree, and does not remember what day it is and what his name is.
The human mind is sometimes invents strange things to deceive himself. Our brains are unique and inimitable: he can build a rocket, discover the medicine and create an immortal poem. And he can nahimichit new thinking and belief system. Only in order to avoid a difficult and sad in private conversation. Frank monologue scares mind no less wild beasts or the raging flames. Thus were born daunshiftery.
I will not tell you who these people are. Who's supposed to, and so aware. And who does not know what this article is unlikely to be interesting. But if short, Downshifting - it is a philosophy change of scenery. Decrease in their standard of living for the sake of changing direction. Daunshiftery tend to do things you love, to learn the world, to know himself. Because it is difficult to be successful at the same time, and to have time for their hobbies or simply unprofitable for tomfoolery. But here lies the main misconception of the system. Daunshiftery substitute the word "difficult" for the word "can not." You see the difference?
Now they can say anything you build a career or traveling the world. Either you become a recognized professional or skate on the surf as you want. Or... or... or... Once upon a time, when in 1991 it was the first word uttered by downshifting, this concept meant for a successful and accomplished people who, having achieved the heights in his profession, wanted to do something others. For the soul. They did not have to provide for themselves, they did not need to prove anything. They were cool, like the gladiators of the Roman arena. And so, one day, scratching his mighty eggs, they decided to create their own personal universe. For yourself.
As is often the case, popular culture, gobble, smacking, delicious new system of values, belched cobs beliefs, which consisted only of the formula: "Quit work and live!" This "recipe" left all the charm change. "We live only once! Think yourself! Can not control myself! "That's just about the background to the success, viability, and other nonsense, and nobody has not thought. As with any medication, prescribed to the wrong patient, the formula Downshifting started to give bad fruit. And to be honest, just maim.
Manager, building a student giant's plans to chair the Vice-President and a Mercedes with a driver, recognize that you have to fight ass from morning till evening for at least 15 years, at the same time solving the huge amount of tedious and complicated tasks and furnished on the head of all competitors. Journalist dreams of label "Editor in Chief", was surprised to discover, that we should ditch the ten years to learn how to write awesome on any stupid topic, and then as much again at the site deputy editor, to learn how to edit and awesome wacky texts strangers. Complete despondency and depression. an alarm sound is perceived hatred worthy partisan during the interrogation of the Nazis. Time goes by, every day the same, and nothing nastaot. And then he finds out that you can in fact live in a different way. You just have to give up all to hell and be happy.
Then they wander under palm trees somewhere in Goa blissfully watching the ocean, smoke weed and talk to a bunch of new friends. Life is good! Though for some reason it is still sad. With each passing month it becomes more difficult to maintain serenity, smiles for the next friends are fake. On the morning of the hated ceiling fan is a strong feeling of nausea. They wanted to live my life bright. They wanted to bring to this world itself. But the world is self-sufficient. It can not be let. He can only live. It can only learn. The universe opens the door only for the same self-sufficient people who know their place in it. Because they themselves have won it for themselves.
What these people have won? What dreams will come true? Who wanted to be and how close it came to? Once they have decided that the word "difficult" - a synonym for the word "can not", and have built a new "I". They did not become great leaders, brilliant doctors, masters of style or fabric. They do not become those who changes his life, because it speaks to the universe on an equal footing. They just ran. Because they - daunshiftery.
We should not, perhaps, be so categorical. For someone a new life in a new place is a real salvation. Blank sheet begins with a new title. Baby craze finally becomes tangible and voplotimym. To conquer the mountain tops, learn martial arts, understand, finally, that damn math. And just to live, doing what he likes. That's just... That's just not forget that to conquer, to study and understand - it's the same years, the same challenges. As in normal office life, few have the courage to again and again to go to the target. And the majority still accepted the old - "drop everything and just live!"
Perhaps Downshifting - it's just an attempt to return to the point of departure. It is the hope of a new option. It is now considered. It is now hard-won years of wandering. Maybe it's just a desire to give themselves without reserve to what you believe and what to strive for. The desire to stand up. But in its place.