Comments on: Am I Just Faking It? http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/am-i-just-faking-it/ Simplicity rules. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:15:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Simple Mom http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/am-i-just-faking-it/#comment-114 Simple Mom Sun, 18 May 2008 12:08:48 +0000 http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-114 I love this! Found you from Remodeling This Life. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I love this! Found you from Remodeling This Life. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

]]> By: Sunday Roundup | Remodeling This Life http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/am-i-just-faking-it/#comment-113 Sunday Roundup | Remodeling This Life Sun, 18 May 2008 10:09:21 +0000 http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-113 [...] I’d like to highlight a new blog I found this week On Simplicity. I love this blog. Please take the time to head on over there and check it out and here is one of my favorite articles from there this week Am I Just Faking It? [...] [...] I’d like to highlight a new blog I found this week On Simplicity. I love this blog. Please take the time to head on over there and check it out and here is one of my favorite articles from there this week Am I Just Faking It? [...]

]]> By: Beth Dargis http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/am-i-just-faking-it/#comment-105 Beth Dargis Fri, 16 May 2008 13:58:56 +0000 http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-105 I love your definition of simplicity. The great thing is that since we are all different, different things call out to us as our loves and things that are important to us. And some feel joy in a austere existence, some of us don't. Making conscious decisions about what you will and will not have in your life is the essence of creating a life you love. And judging other people's lifestyles as "not simple enough" doesn't have a place in that. I love your definition of simplicity. The great thing is that since we are all different, different things call out to us as our loves and things that are important to us. And some feel joy in a austere existence, some of us don’t. Making conscious decisions about what you will and will not have in your life is the essence of creating a life you love. And judging other people’s lifestyles as “not simple enough” doesn’t have a place in that.

]]> By: Marelisa http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/am-i-just-faking-it/#comment-101 Marelisa Fri, 16 May 2008 04:32:20 +0000 http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-101 I agree that you're not faking it Serenity. I see posts where people proudly show off their office which basically consists of bare walls, a table, a computer, and a chair. I find that depressing. In my effort to simplify I've certainly gotten rid of a lot of unnecessary things (and I don't miss them one bit), but there are a lot of items in my home office which are very useful to me, some that just make my life more comfortable, and some that I simply enjoy looking at. Like you mention in your post, simplicity is adapting your environment to suit your authentic needs. I agree that you’re not faking it Serenity. I see posts where people proudly show off their office which basically consists of bare walls, a table, a computer, and a chair. I find that depressing. In my effort to simplify I’ve certainly gotten rid of a lot of unnecessary things (and I don’t miss them one bit), but there are a lot of items in my home office which are very useful to me, some that just make my life more comfortable, and some that I simply enjoy looking at. Like you mention in your post, simplicity is adapting your environment to suit your authentic needs.

]]> By: Serendipity http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/am-i-just-faking-it/#comment-93 Serendipity Thu, 15 May 2008 14:50:31 +0000 http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-93 Thanks Emily and Jenna! You're both right--it's about thriving and finding balance. It's fantastic to know that I'm not the only one who equates simplifying with having more--making room for better, as Emily put it. Besides, I look terrible in burlap. ;) Thanks Emily and Jenna! You’re both right–it’s about thriving and finding balance. It’s fantastic to know that I’m not the only one who equates simplifying with having more–making room for better, as Emily put it. Besides, I look terrible in burlap. ;)

]]> By: Emily http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/am-i-just-faking-it/#comment-87 Emily Thu, 15 May 2008 11:26:31 +0000 http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-87 You are not faking it!! It's all so much a matter of personal experience and perspective. It's just like everybody's frugal means something different. You are simplifying YOUR life. You don't have to quit shaving and wear the same dress 365 days of the year and walk everywhere. A conscious effort to decrease your footprint on this planet is simplicity. The key is balancing simplicity with still enjoying life and the pleasures it has to offer. It's all very personal. And once you've simplified the STUFF out of your life, that is when the abundance of love, joy, happiness, pleasure pile into your life because you've made room for them! You are not faking it!! It’s all so much a matter of personal experience and perspective. It’s just like everybody’s frugal means something different. You are simplifying YOUR life. You don’t have to quit shaving and wear the same dress 365 days of the year and walk everywhere. A conscious effort to decrease your footprint on this planet is simplicity. The key is balancing simplicity with still enjoying life and the pleasures it has to offer. It’s all very personal. And once you’ve simplified the STUFF out of your life, that is when the abundance of love, joy, happiness, pleasure pile into your life because you’ve made room for them!

]]> By: Jenna http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/am-i-just-faking-it/#comment-86 Jenna Thu, 15 May 2008 11:18:58 +0000 http://onsimplicity.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-86 Nope - not faking it. To me, living a bit more simply and walking a little lighter on the planet does not equal wearing a burlap feedsack while sitting in the lotus posistion humming inside my cave. One of the reasons I walked away from a lot of the "survival" boards and sites is a simple one. In the long wrong, no matter what happens... I don't want to survive. I want to THRIVE. Hmmm. Perhaps we're both fakers? Nope – not faking it.

To me, living a bit more simply and walking a little lighter on the planet does not equal wearing a burlap feedsack while sitting in the lotus posistion humming inside my cave. One of the reasons I walked away from a lot of the “survival” boards and sites is a simple one. In the long wrong, no matter what happens… I don’t want to survive.

I want to THRIVE. Hmmm. Perhaps we’re both fakers?

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