Love your Substack’s Jordan - especially one everyday. I am reading with your voice in head also which helps. I resonate with this post so much as I’ve contemplated this for years. Having just sold all my stuff and moved across the globe with 20kg to my name. I see people everyday here in Asian culture, happy with their simple lives - although they are still obsessed with their phones. They don’t take it for granted and they are so much more peaceful and content with life. It’s a happy medium.
wow Fern, what a thrilling journey you’re embarking on! I adored my time in Asia, particularly south China where they truly “live off the fat of the land”, to quote Steinbeck. Travelling offers perspective, and for me that is key to figuring out this crazy world. Followed you for your travels!
The lens through which we see the world is so distorted.
Our view of “normal” is anything but.
Our mental health crisis is a totally understandable reaction to living in this environment where we’ve never been so disconnected from ourselves and each other.
Love your Substack’s Jordan - especially one everyday. I am reading with your voice in head also which helps. I resonate with this post so much as I’ve contemplated this for years. Having just sold all my stuff and moved across the globe with 20kg to my name. I see people everyday here in Asian culture, happy with their simple lives - although they are still obsessed with their phones. They don’t take it for granted and they are so much more peaceful and content with life. It’s a happy medium.
wow Fern, what a thrilling journey you’re embarking on! I adored my time in Asia, particularly south China where they truly “live off the fat of the land”, to quote Steinbeck. Travelling offers perspective, and for me that is key to figuring out this crazy world. Followed you for your travels!
Hell yes.
The lens through which we see the world is so distorted.
Our view of “normal” is anything but.
Our mental health crisis is a totally understandable reaction to living in this environment where we’ve never been so disconnected from ourselves and each other.
powerful as always