Everyday, I am trying to go back to the 90s. The activity that takes me closest to that time is my yoga practice. I feel real and natural.

The second task is petting cats. The third involves sleeping and having simple home food.

Like these are my top priorities!!

Everyday I am trying to avoid the urge to indulge in easy to get food, easy to entertain myself via Netflix, easy to chill through scrolling mindlessly. Yet failing! 😃

With a decent income the easy to afford things have multiplied. But I want to stay poor and natural and raw. And it’s hard I must say in this time and age.

Today I was sitting on my terrace watching the sunset, thinking about the schooldays when there was no online shopping, no Zomato, no Netflix, actually no phone itself. I was thinking how the hell did I spend my time?

The day would start with going to school. By 3pm I would be back home. Then slept. Then I went out to play or maybe played with my brother. By 6:30-7pm I would sit down to study. Then played again. Had dinner by 10am and went to sleep.

When did things change? When did chilling start meaning lazying around and watching Netflix? When did spending a good weekend start meaning sitting with a group of friends for drinks and party? Why such distorted POVs nowadays? Where is the current generation going? Or we too? Where are we who are in our 30s going?

In my childhood, I remember we could afford just one trip a year. A family trip. And, me and my brother would be so excited for that throughout the year. And now? We get bored in 3 months! We need to go out travelling multiple times a year. Why? Where is our patience level? Where is that sense of excitement?

I kind of dislike this easy to get world. Hence, I try tethering my wants. I fail most of the times but I try!

I promised myself to not travel from February to August. I know I get frustrated by May and want to go out. But I don’t!

I promise myself to not order food more than twice a month. Failing at this! But trying!

I stopped watching Netflix or anything like that. You won’t get any update from me regarding any web series. I am so out of date!

I stopped myself from scrolling down yoga photos which I used to do a lot previously. It doesn’t excite me anymore.

Though I am trying to stop scrolling just about anything at all. Failing at that too! 😃

I haven’t seen movies in a hall in about a year or more.

When I get bored, I actively try to go to my cats and pet them. Or maybe read a book. Or, work with clay. Or, try out some journal layouts.

I don’t spend time on long phone calls too..

Let’s see how this goes! The main motto is to not be owned by money and technology and their power to spoil us in every sense possible. The motto is to keep the patience and wait for things. To be bored. Till being bored brings in joy in various forms.

It is actually, when we are bored and have nothing to do, do we really start observing things. You observe the sky, the birds, the people etc etc. That’s when real connection to self and nature starts.

It’s almost like meditation. I think this is the change that practice has brought in me. The mental strength to stay away from easy to get things. The mental strength to avoid gossips and the wrong group of people just for the sake of spending time. The mental strength to stay away from easy gratification. The mental strength to stay away from addictive and influencing things. The mental strength to stay away from giving in to luxury.

Still have a lot to work on! On my way.. 🙂