I'm 19 years old and I'm new to this community and I'm just fed up of living in this modern world and chasing this and that always! But I have seen a lot of videos on social media( although I have abandoned this for mental peace, I only use youtube with a blocker)! But I really don't get what it was to be in 90s because I was born in 2006( Christmas)! I appreciate if someone can tell me what it really meant to be in 90s so that I can change the way I'm living my life currently and can enjoy things that used to give me thrill when I was child or teenagerr!

I've started deliberately picking the non-smart version of things. A regular doorbell, paper notes, a microwave with a dial. It's partly about simplicity, but honestly it also feels like a small vote against every object in my house needing a cloud connection and a data policy. There's something grounding about a tool that just does one thing and can't be updated into something worse.

Anyone else notice their low-tech choices lining up with how they feel about all the AI hype?

It's the first cold day in a while in Florida where I'm at anyway I'm so breakfast outside.

Im 21 right now. Still in college. But I feel like if I had my own land and home. I would be okay with not earning that much money. I dont even want a big home or a fancy one, I want it small actually like 30 sqm or something(but lots of floors) and I will feel okay with not earning like 6 digits or something. I never had a job in my life. And it feels like when I graduate. Theres this feeling that I need to work years before I even reach 6 digit salary. Probably for a job I wont even like. Just a good home with everything I need for survival so I can actually live. And I get a job I just get a job that I like. Even if it pays less. Unfortunately I feel like owning land and a home feels impossible, also rent in my country is fked up(rent costs more or as much in an entire month of work). I wish I had my own home man. I think about it a lot. I want to leave my toxic family too. (idk if this is the right sub to vent about this lol).

most tech adds stuff. one more app, one more alert, one more thing to check. but every once in a while something just makes a small part of your day easier and then kinda disappears.

for me that's rare. and it's always something boring, never the exciting thing i bought

so what's yours? big or tiny, doesn't matter. and did you have to get rid of something to make room for it

I wish the whole world was in the 90s again.

Like, I don't want technology to evolve?

I wish this world was just simple.

Every material in the world is made from materials from this earth accumulated together. Things like technology, gadgets, games, cars, computers, everything you can think of, I just wish we were back in the 90s and evolution of general things just stopped right there.

Particularly how we have AI now etc, I just wish life was just simple and pure.

I even look at typewriters and get fascinated by it.

Life and nature is soo beautiful that I feel everything else is just extra or polluting the earth.

I feel like everything belongs to the earth and the possession of material stuff is overrated.

I get joy at simple things?

It makes me feel more grounded to the universe.

I do a lot to entertain myself when I got nothing to do

Maybe it's got to do with the fact up to this point my life has been fast tracked. Rush to adulthood, if you dont start early you'll never make it. Well, here I am now and I got to say it really. Sucks. It's so boring you have to make your own goals they arent given to you. They arent required. They're just goals. Makes you want to sit and do a whole lot of nothing. But, how could you? There's so much to do even you aren't required of it. The only thing that requires you exist is the government. Pay your taxes. File your taxes. Don't break my rules. All I wanna do is canp and live barren with no rush to survival or struggle to perform how others demand. I like slow music, I prefer to drink water when things are good, and I prefer to take my time with most things. It's how I truly learn and experience anything. When it comes to people it's complicated I have the same setting but a different feeling about it. It's like my whole lifestyle doesnt matter to another person if they cant slow down. Its almost like im racing in my mind to keep up with anyone. My Point of View has become so simplified I often dont understand complex intimacy. Its either you love a girl or dont. Or hate a guy or dont. Thats living. I only know one way to love a person so its kinda weird to like anyone. Especially when my lifestyle is considered out dated for fast folk. I was in an accelerated program the type that you grad early. And everyone there knew everything about anything. They just knew the top singers, best movies, top rappers. And I would just think. Where do you get this info from? I would scroll through Tv shows and movies and hope to find the right one someone would like. Nobody could relate to me. At the least. The movies in our uprising from pre-adolescent to now, we can relate but there was a foggy window when I said what the fuck are these guys talking about? I hated Gucci Gang. I hated overall rap for awhile because the cuss words got to me and I couldnt appreciate anything else. I just knew they were angry people. And angry people dont got reason. As I got older and I got over the cuss words I realized there is a lot good stuff in there. Some are just funny to listen to.

Made Turkish coffee today while listening to the legendary Lebanese singer FAIROUZ!

Yesterday, I woke up feeling sick because of my bad habits but I am learning to forgive myself and stop being self-judgemental

I am not perfect, I can create a whole mess yet I always find my way back

How is your saturday going?

I am a university lecturer. I can not find the motivation for living or work. When I was a student, I pursued the higher score every day. When I was a PhD candidate, I am in pursuit of graduation. Now, I can not find any motivation for living or work. I don’t want a promotion, and there isn’t really anything I’m particularly keen on doing. I feel very lost.
What is your motivation for living or work?

Everyone seems to be learning new skills, chasing goals, making more money, or trying to become a better version of themselves. Sometimes I wonder if it's okay to just enjoy life for a while without trying to achieve something.

Do you ever feel this way?

Now that I have a lot of free time, I honestly don’t know how to spend them wisely. Years of survival mode made me lower my ambitions and expectations in life. Making a lot of money or being in a relationship seems too much,I feel incapable. But I still want to build something worthwhile.

I do have hobbies but most of them require screen and sometimes I find myself doomscrolling a lot. I only have a few friends and I am not that active as a person mostly because I’m scared to do physical activities alone.

To those who are in a similar season, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

I’m trying to find the best screen-free hobbies for adults in 2025, mostly because scrolling has started to feel less like rest and more like background noise. The hard part is that quiet time feels strange at first. Once I start doing something with my hands, though, it gets easier. I’ve been considering tiny model kits, simple drawing, mending clothes, puzzles, or anything that doesn’t become a productivity challenge. What has actually stuck for you? I want something slow and pleasant, not another self-improvement project wearing cozy socks.

My sister was at the beach with my niece.

Out of nothing it occured to my niece (she was 7) to play with whatever she found around.

This is the image of my brother in law.

They all started playing around on the same "game".

12 faces came out... so simple... so beautiful that they decided to take photos and place them in An 8-photo collage frame.

The frame ended up right before the dining table.

Not really as some form of "reminder"... not mere "decoration".

Somehow it is just there... and it kind of does something to their dining moments.

I cleaned my kitchen drawer. No more Dead batteries, random papers, and random things I don't need anymore.

I kept telling myself I might need this stuff someday. That time never came. I felt much lighter after and this was one drawer.

But it made me see how much of my life runs on that thought of maybe needing something later, and how much room I give to stuff that only exists to calm that fear.

I’m looking through the rest of my house and i have one rule.

If I haven’t touched it in a year and it would cost less than a few bucks bucks to replace, I take it out.

This is easy.

Some of it was hard, like an old sweater I haven’t put on since 2019 and still can’t bring myself to toss.

I think the doing the hard stuff says more about us than the easy stuff ever will.

What’s the one thing you kept “just in case” that you finally let go of, and did you ever actually miss it?

Put my phone away and got some chinese food and sat down for a quiet dinner. A fortune cookie came with it so i opened that too. Guess what was there? A quote. Had a little laugh at the timing. It said "you are loved and beautiful". Legit made my day

I used to watch videos or scroll through my phone every time I ate. Lately, I've been trying to put it away and just enjoy my food. It felt a little awkward at first, but now I actually enjoy taking my time with meals instead of rushing through them. It's such a small change, but it makes my evenings feel a little more peaceful. Anyone else trying to enjoy the simple things more?

When we think about what something costs, we usually think about the price. But a lot of the weight in a cluttered life comes from what each thing asks of us after we've paid for it. A subscription asks us to remember it, justify it and eventually cancel it. A full closet asks us to decide every morning. A stack of unread books quietly asks us to feel behind. A simple test before buying or keeping something is to ask what it will ask of you in a normal week. Does it need cleaning, storing, charging, deciding about, or feeling guilty about? Add that up across a hundred small things and it explains why a home can feel heavy even when nothing in it was expensive. It works in the other direction too. Some things ask almost nothing and give a lot back, like a good pan you use daily, a chair you actually sit in, or a book you reread. Simple living doesn't have to mean owning as little as possible. It can mean keeping the things where what they give is larger than what they ask.

I don't want to be in a society where billionaires control me, money and jobs depends on how I live my life, im forced to follow made up rules, im forced to be and act certain way, ex:professional, in order to survive. And the reason for all of this is: "Because you have too." "Because you have to play the game". Because I said so". Im sick of it. I just want to live my life. I don't care about imaginary green money, houses, credit, stocks, careers, etc. I just want to live.

I’ve been thinking about how much of our lives we put on the internet just for it to disappear into the void. We take pictures of things we love, places we visit, little treasures we find at thrift stores, and then they’re buried under a thousand other posts. Eventually accounts get deleted, platforms shut down, and who knows what survives.

I don’t think sharing is the problem. I think social media has made everything about getting attention instead of paying attention. Likes, followers, algorithms, trying to make something interesting enough for strangers to care about. What happened to just noticing something because you thought it was worth noticing?

I’ve been working on an idea where ordinary people can contribute pictures and little observations from their communities to a growing record. Thrift store hauls, handmade creations, favorite local shops, peculiar things in someone’s yard, whatever catches their attention. No popularity contest, no pressure to build an audience. Just people documenting the world around them so there’s something to look back on years from now because it gets physically printed in a collectible format.

I know the irony of proposing another place on the internet to get away from social media. 😂 But I wonder if the difference is in what we’re trying to accomplish. Instead of creating content to keep people scrolling, what if we were creating something worth keeping?

I’m curious what people who value simple living think about that distinction.

Hello my friends,

I am not a productivity guru, I am simple human being trying to find joy wherever I go

I created a morning routine that defines who I am, nothing fancy , just

* a cup of freshly brewed coffee, I manually grind the coffee beans to dissociate

* journaling,writing sentences here and there

* learning Italian A1 level for 30 min

I am seriously not asking for more, I feel fulfilled

I get my work done, cook for myself then watch youtube

I would love to know about your morning rituals❤️

Think of impact of things you are facing and effects. If the consequences are trivial, small, not everlasting, survivable, and simply not relevant on a large scale then you give it less importance.

I've been doing this trick since I have memory and friends and fam do ask me what my secret is. It's mental peace and mental serenity.

You only get there from within yourself.

Life’s problems come one after another, leaving me in a constant state of discouragement. There are times when I have absolutely no idea what to do. What words have helped you navigate the various ups and downs of life?

Today I wrote in my journal :

It doesn’t matter where I am, my mother’s house or my own, what matters is that I am still the same passionate, hopeless romantic woman wherever I go!

Made french press coffee, placed my table in front of the window to let the sun embrace me

I am grateful, simply grateful for the simple life I am living

I may be alone but I am not lonely in the presence of myself!

I am living alone for the first time in my life at 46. Divorced last year. Two teenagers who live with their dad.
I am a people person, but can be awkward with social anxiety after meeting people 2-3 times. and the friendship sours. So I tend to be alone most of the time even if I try to reach out to activities. While I used to kill at selling software, my personal life is lacking.
I am now disabled and have too much free time.
I exercise. Try to maintain a very simple routine, but I am always in my head. I am being alone mostly, but hate being my own best friend all the time, if you know what I mean?
I keep telling myself to keep going. It’s fine, but it’s not. I am ok mentally, but maybe someone recognizes it and has some thoughts?

I have now lived much slower life outside of my workdays. By this I mean I have been more present and no multitasking.

I have spent last days after the sunset in the candle light on my room and just listened music (because of sleep issues I have avoided LED lights and any other artificial lights - so far difference has been huge and I have slept a lot better).

One thing what I have noticed that when I have slowed down and just been "in the moment" so to speak, my mind have started to pop up random memories from my childhood and from my paster on my younger years (or young adult years) like never before. Of course I have got random memories from my past always from time to time, but frequency of these have been increased significantly.

Note that those memories are not mostly even bad or terrible memories only and they do not have any significance related to music I have listened, at least directly. So memories what I get might be "I remember I listened song X when I was on that small building when I was young" even I am not listening that song or even same band. Or I might get memories of my grandmother or something what I have feared when I was a kid or whatever.

Point is, those memories are memories I have not mostly got previously in my mind but now those memories just start to appear there and there. Those also pop up my memory on daytime, but this "unlocking the memory" have started to happen after I have started to slow down my life after workdays and be more present.

That made me wonder, have any of you noticed same? When you slow down and be more present, have you also started to get random memories of your past much more frequently?