Getting out of society
If you want to get out of society, you don't have to flee to a lonely island. Even getting out "on a small scale" can be worthwhile.
Even if there are many models of life in western societies today, many people feel one strong pressure to conform: performance counts and success is often based on career advancement and the level of income fixed. If you want to get out of the hamster wheel of the achievement society, then you should realize that time can be much more valuable than money.
Get out of the performance society
- People dropping out of society often have a long period of searching for meaning behind them: suddenly It no longer seems as desirable as before to spend a whole life in terms of career and money orientate.
- Similarly, if you are looking for meaning and want to free yourself from social constraints, then you should practice letting go.
- Before you quit the job, sell the house and get out completely, you could do an internal and external inventory. Ask yourself carefully whether the goals you are pursuing really lead to a life in which you can feel happiness and contentment.
- Some people accumulate more and more things in their lives because it is so difficult for them to part with the old ones and new ones keep being added. If you want to practice the art of letting go, then you can also start by sorting out the wardrobe and thus parting with superfluous ballast.
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Exit in small steps
- If you shy away from leaving everything behind you, then practice exiting in small ways Steps: For example, stop working every overtime just because you think you will be laid off will.
- Try not only to cram the day full of appointments, but also to treat yourself to little "timeouts" that do not have to be filled with anything. You may be most likely to come up with new ideas during such leisure hours.
- Those who need less money also need less time to work for it. Getting out of the consumer society step by step is not that difficult: Buy a pair of used trousers on eBay instead of buying a new one straight away.
Those who free themselves from social constraints will experience more freedom in life. Moral constraints hardly exist today, but the consumer and performance society has defined new constraints.
