Quitting can be kind – the simple life I want to live instead скачать в хорошем качестве

Quitting can be kind – the simple life I want to live instead

I hope this video brings you a moment of peace and inspires you to slow down daily life just a little with me. 🌱 🌼 My Instagram:   / lauralindenillustration   💌 Shop my art: https://laura-linden.com _________________ Hello everyone! I have truly treasured these last weeks of summer. Golden mornings with just the right amount of chill in the air. Long afternoons in yellow light and that special type of beauty we find only when we know it won’t last. The birds have started feeding on my tall and now wilted sunflowers that have turned to seed. My tiny balcony garden has offered the very last fruits of my spring and summer labour and this first year of gardening has taught me an unexpectedly great amount about tending to things with love, patience and trusting that anything that receives the right amount of care and attention for its need will eventually turn into something beautiful. We just have to let go of control and surrender to faith. I have spent these first days of October on the outskirts of the city harvesting, painting and settling into this change. And in that I have found myself thinking a lot about quitting. The idea of quitting and what it means to be “a quitter”. I was raised to be ambitious and somewhat perfectionistic and a complete workaholic. Someone who sees things through all the way, commits and ultimately someone who ties their self worth to achievements rather than the joy they feel in their life. Someone who sticks to the plan. “The plan” I found, this year particularly, wasn’t a really good one though because it left me constantly feeling like I was underachieving, behind in life, not good enough to succeed at anything because the bar I had set was so high, achieving all my goals would inevitably come at a price. I think that price is my peace and my health. It led me to think that perhaps the reason I am spiritually frightened of the turn of the season this year is because just like autumn, I have a good deal of things to let go of, to let die so that there is space for new growth in spring. I know this truth but it has never frightened me more than now. At twenty something, rearranging my entire life somehow. This is the first video I am sharing with you all today with zero subscribers or followers anywhere else. So I have no expectation of anyone watching this to be honest. But I wanted to share my thoughts and a week in my current life nonetheless. I am currently working a job that I once loved. That I gave years and years and hours upon hours to. Right now it seems as though I have hit a dead end and as if my feelings for the thing I thought I wanted completely changed overnight. Like biting into a shiny red apple just to find it rotten to its core. I suddenly saw so much wrong with the industry I am in and the toll the intense work is taking on my health, especially mentally. So now I wonder ‘what if quitting can be the kindest thing we can do for ourselves?’ And maybe stopping the pursuit of something we once loved isn’t quitting after all. Maybe it isn’t failing, but just the beginning of the pursuit of something new entirely. I do believe now that you cannot fail at life the way I always thought I was, no matter what I achieved, because someone was reaching even higher. Life is only an exploration. An invitation to feel: joy, thrill, luck, grief and I know for myself now that I want to prioritise peace. I used to believe that pushing myself out of my comfort zone was inherently good but now I feel quite different. Comfort is a very fundamental need and tending to one's life with care, love and patience, just like a balcony garden, will eventually lead to something beautiful. My goal with this channel is to change my life. To find myself again (if finding oneself is even possible). To forge a path for myself that makes me happier and a path that is finally truly mine. And also, to take you along. My hope is that this channel could one day grow into a community and that I can be an artist, full time, sharing stories and my work. I also hope to document moving to Ireland in the near future and finding a true home in the world as someone who never quite felt like they belonged. And if you are watching right now, I cannot thank you enough. _________ #autumn #October #cozyvlog #cozyliving #cottagecore #artist #cottageliving #slowlife #slowliving #artstudio #peaceful #cottagecoreaesthetic #nature #inspirational #artist #natureinspired #cottagecore #cottagelife #balconygarden