A village mentality

Today is a day of rest, nothing much, just doing some chores and tomorrow would be another day to do some banking. This is great because when the holiday period ends, so will the easy life. Schedules would be tight once more and doing banking would once again be a rush task.

If you stop and think about it, life is about rushing and it seems that the harder you push yourself, the harder you have to continue to push. Probably this is the reason why people are pushing themselves so hard until they develop all kinds of phobia, neurosis, etc. Ever wondered why a shrink would not be able to do well in a village? Because in a village, you won't have stress and with stress comes mental disorders. Yup, mental disorder is a urban disease (quoting from a friend).

In a village, you may be thinking about the next meal or the next harvest but life in general is pretty stress free. Here, in the urban society, stress is basically self-induced. Why? Self-induced because of "keeping up with the Jones's", "grass is greener on the other side", etc. If someone says, so what if the cost of living goes up, I'll just spend less or I change my lifestyle instead. Problem is, most people does not want to change to a lower lifestyle but a bigger lifestyle. By chasing a bigger lifestyle, it's again telling yourself that grass is greener on the other side. So to rush for it make it harder for anyone to reduce the mental stress. This may, in turn, cause some mental disorder of some sort.

If you are staying in a village, though you may not be living in luxury, you may be better off since you won't have a headache of getting a better car, bigger house, etc. Sometimes I wish I would be stress free, just like the villages, wouldn't you?