The world community is currently directed to a hedonic mindset that is a view that considers material pleasure and enjoyment as the purpose of life. One of them is shopping hobby, someone will be satisfied if you can buy branded clothes, shoes and bags.
It's not wrong if you want to buy branded items but the goal is not to seek happiness or satisfy pleasure. Though happiness is simple. Well, how to live a simple life so that you are happier?
The opponent of simple life is a luxurious life. Often we equate simple life like a person who looks moneyless, poor and sad. Conversely, if we can use branded goods, eating in restaurants and always riding luxury vehicles is characteristic of rich people, lots of money when in fact many people who are truly rich choose a simple life. Whereas those who actually have mediocre money always want to look luxurious to the point that credit card debt accumulates beyond the limit of ability.
Be thankful that you can live in sufficiency, not less food, clothing and that there is more than enough shelter. Look at people who are still less fortunate than you. Grateful to make your life happier, without gratitude you will continue to be anxious to achieve what you cannot achieve.
What's more important to live a simple way of life is that you need to throw away a sense of pride and shame. The rich artist just wants to keep away the sense of pride for riding an ojek online like Dian Sastrowardoyo, eating at a sidewalk like Nagita Slavina or like Sarwendah who appear as they are with the negligee even though they are rich artists
Simple life does not mean we are lazing to be poor, just the opposite. You must work diligently in order to improve your standard of living. By working, you will have a greater purpose in life for example if you are an ordinary employee who wants to open your own business, then you will try to save so that you have the capital to open a business.
Living below the ability, for example, if someone eats in an ordinary food stall for 50 thousand, when in fact he is able to eat at a restaurant for 200 thousand. Or someone who has a salary of 10 million a month but he prefers to buy a motorbike rather than having to ride a car purchased on credit
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