Is slow living for me?

Do you always feel stressed, anxious, and on top-speed autopilot? So much that you feel yourself having moments of anxiousness because at one moment you are at your highest and then at your lowest and lost on why you feel so burned out or in a rat wheel? Maybe slow living is the answer for you.

Slow living is a lifestyle which encourages a slower approach to aspects of everyday life, involving completing tasks at a leisurely pace. – Wikipedia

If you search slow living on YouTube you find a world of things around this definition, dozens of creators that live this lifestyle and share how they do it in the present time.

If you were raised anything like me you may find that most of the concepts were already very present in your childhood. Of course, when growing up and going through my teenage years I wanted anything to do with my grandpa’s farm, being outside, getting to know how to grow veggies, or even how to homemade. But with Covid, living in a small apartment in the big city, and becoming a mom, all of this grew up in me and I found myself getting more and more into the lifestyle.

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I’m not yet at the level of my grandparents, who still on this day, live by this lifestyle, a piece of land where my 90-years grandpa still grows most of their food, goes to the local market to buy the rest, and my grandmas bakes her much loved by all of us sponge cake and while making all their meals homemade.

But I find myself more and more proud and grateful for the way they raised me. After traveling the world when they were my age and working in the most exotic places on earth, this was the way they chose to live in their retirement years. And how truly lovely it is.

Now to the present time and how I found slow living as a lifestyle to help with my anxiety: Slow living as the term says is to go slower, take more joy on daily making, on the daily life.

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If you take the day slower, slowing your pace (literally) and giving yourself time to see what’s around you, to love your home, to choose only things that bring joy around you, if you choose to take joy in the simple things of going to the local market or shop and buy fresh vegetables, make soup like your grandma, bake her sponge cake, make the best cup of coffee or tea or learn how to plant a small garden in your backyard or even balcony (have you seen Thuydao balcony garden?), you find that there is so much more around you to be grateful for and even, maybe, you find yourself refinding what your heart craves more.

That is totally okay if this makes you rethink your priorities. Sometimes we find ourselves so deep in our rushing daily lives to understand that we may have grown up from it. Maybe you have been craving a different life pace and you didn’t know. Let’s see.

My challenge to you this week is to dive into the concept and see if slow living may be, really, for you.

Hope you enjoyed this topic, if you want to know more about slow living, I will leave you 3 YouTube channels that made me discover it and re-fall in love with it: Kahvihuone8487, Thuydao’s Her 86m2, and Farmhouse on Boone.