“We work jobs we hate, to buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like.” You don’t need to have watched the movie Fight Club to have heard this phrase before. It’s become synonymous with the quest for minimalism, or the yearning for a simpler life.
More and more people are waking up to the fact that they aren’t happy with the traditional way of life – and some are even brave enough to turn things upside down and make a drastic change. Like one American, who quit their jobs (yes, plural), took all their savings, and moved across the world to West Africa.
Sick of hyper-consumerism and being a slave to debt, this person went in search of a better life. One based on “slow, intentional living” and being “more connected to the earth.” But they say after the honeymoon phase wore off, a very rude awakening was waiting on the other side…
