Throughout my journeys, experiences and conversations in the recent years, I learned some amazing facts. Well, amazing for me.
- The traditional core family, father, mother some children living together is just one of many possibilities, and quite honestly the idea of that constellation scares me. While I certainly value the experience of having deep and caring relationships, I cannot imagine myself to limit my love to just one partner. I’d rather live together in a larger “family” with several individuals, sharing compassion, like in a commune, that encourages free love and kindness.
- The traditional idea of working harder and harder in a job you don’t like, to earn a living scares me too. But there is a different kind of work, I know that there are people that have built lean and efficient organisations, where people can work stress-free, fulfilled and happy on something meaningful. I know that such organisations exists, and I explored much of the knowledge necessary to build one. And in the coming years I will try everything to make such an organisation for me and my people a reality. Such organisations should provide the means to make a living for the big family structure that I mentioned in the first point.
Will it work? Well, I know that such structures and arrangements exists, and I am sure that there are many more that nobody has yet heard of, where people are just living their own happy lives.
And while there are probably many communes that live self-sustaining, most that I’ve heard of seem to advocate more of a “hippie chic”, colorful, chaotic, earthly, alternative look. While I can understand that there is a certain aesthetic to it, I am aiming for an entirely different aesthetic, and that is one that is more inspired by the mainstream, corporately dictated “culture”, rather than the bohemian style.
Why that? Because I think the world is ready for such a way to live, and I’d love to show the world that a different life is possible for everyone. I don’t want to make people that are still slaving away in a job they dread to feel left out. I want to show people that happiness is only a tiny step away rather than requiring a radical identity shift.
I do like the world as it is, I’d just like to see a focus shift to working smarter, more relaxed and more efficiently, rather than harder, and to focus more on relationships, rather than things you can buy. From what I’ve seen, learned and observed, I have no doubt it is possible. And as far as I can see, there is nothing more important for me to do in the next 10 years, so I’ll go for it in any case. And the best thing is, I know I am not alone, this movement is already taking up speed.
Have fun,
Cheers
-Richard