When the luxuries of your life become your routines, the power of crisis survival gets reduced dramatically. On the contrary, a simple l...
When the luxuries of your life become your routines, the power of crisis survival gets reduced dramatically. On the contrary, a simple lifestyle strengthens your inner abilities to fight all kinds of tragic circumstances in your life.
To elaborate on this theory, let us consider an example. If I take my son to a high-end, costly restaurant every weekend, then over the course of some months, it will become his routine to enjoy this treat. In fact, this will no longer be a luxury for him; instead, it will become his need. Now, God forbid, for any reason, I am unable to take him to such restaurants, then surely he is going to miss this luxury of eating out and soon would start complaining about it, get embarrassed, or be emotionally disturbed. Now, if I apply this basic example to multiple luxurious habits (such as buying toys, video games, clothes too often, or fulfilling all wishes swiftly), then imagine what would happen to the psychology of my kid at the time of a financial crisis. Indeed, he will get disheartened, distracted, and emotionally disturbed. He might feel that his blessings have been snatched from him all of a sudden. His overall personality and character would definitely be impacted!
Well, the purpose of all this elaboration is not asking you to deprive your loved ones of their rights but to reduce these luxury routines from your life. And in order to do that, let us take the same eating-out example again. So, if you ate out last weekend, then this week you can eat homemade food. The money which you were about to spend on eating out, you can buy some fruits or milk or anything for the guys working at the nearby petrol pump, the workers at a nearby construction project, or simply encourage your children to give this money to any charity project.
This mechanism has multiple advantages:
- Helping the Less Fortunate: You are helping less fortunate community members to enjoy the blessings.
- Raising Ethical Children: You are raising your child with high ethical values.
- Strengthening Crisis Resilience: You are adopting a simple lifestyle, hence improving your strength to fight well during crises.
- Promoting Healthy Eating: By eating homemade food, you are adopting a healthy lifestyle because it's fresh, less fatty, and more hygienic. Consequently, you are helping yourself stay away from heart and other several diseases.
- Spreading Happiness: You are spreading happiness in your community. In fact, you are generating ripples of happiness and consequently adding a high impact on society.
If you would like to adapt simplicity in your life, please do read my article here.
The eating-out example is just for the sake of elaboration; in fact, the concept can be applied in several domains of life
