A simple life style

I just want a simple life because having this kind of life can make us much happier than those who has an abundant life, like abundant in material things but less in attention of their parents because of having busy with their works..Some, having this kind of life, children are not respecting their parents anymore..More simple, less heartaches..i guess...

I also think it's more practical. I haven't achieved the level of simplicity I want yet but I'm slowly working towards it. It's much easier to add things than to take them away but in the end it's worth it. I don't feel much pressure from media because I don't pay much attention to those things. I feel more pressure from friends and family. My ultimate simply life is probably more extreme than I can feasibly obtain. I'll be happy when I'm growing my own vegetables, drinking fresh milk, collecting my own eggs for breakfast, making most of the clothes. When I am free of disposable diapers and processed baby food, free of weekly shopping trips and high heating costs. I won't give up electricity altogether but I would love to not be dependant on it. I'd have just enough for hot water, refrigeration, a few small appliances, and of course the computer.

I think living simply is practical these days, but I think I find it a struggle with all the media blaring at me all the time. I think it would be so much easier if we didn't have a tv! It's easier to find contentment when you don't have society telling you what you "need" to have in order to be happy.