In a TED Talk Jon Jandai offers some significant food for thought regarding what truly matters and how we complicate our lives unnecessarily.
Here’s an example of his simple wisdom, “Before I thought that stupid people like me … cannot have a house… because people who are cleverer than me and get a job need to work for 30 years to have a house. But for me, who cannot finish university, how can I have a house. It’s hopeless for people who have low education like me. But when I start to do earthen buildings, it’s so easy! I spent two hours per day… and in 3 months I have a house. A friend who was the most clever in the class he has a house too but he has to be in debt for 30 years, so compared to him I have 29 years and 9 months of free time. I feel life is so easy.”
And here’s another, “I feel like now is the most uncivilized era of humans on this Earth. We have so many people who finish university, we have so many universities on the Earth. We have so many clever people on this Earth. But, life is harder and harder. We make it hard for whom? We work hard for whom right now?”
Jandai’s message resonates with me as I seriously consider taking the next step towards living more simply and consciously.
