Modern Luxuries or Modern Misery?

Does anyone else feel like modern technology is ruining our lives? Taking us further away from our true selves everyday? We spend most of our time worrying stressing about modern life for what reason? Then to distract ourselves from the stress of it all we stare blankly at our mobile devices and scroll endlessly through social media wasting what precious time we have on this planet…
I wish I could just claim some land build a house and live primitively and self sufficient for the rest of my days…Would be a much more fulfilling life in my eyes.

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Nelladell · 80-89, F

It is, indeed, dificult to shut off our gadgety security blankets and toss out unnecessary things to simplify and calm our lives.

To this end, I heard a story I love, told by a monk:

He was being welcomed to the ashram/monastery by a senior monk who said, "If there is something you want and you can't find it, come to me and I will show you how to get along without it."

I don't think we need to live like monks, but I think we can learn from them.

SW-User

We escape a lot of what made us miserable in the past with modern technology, but the balance between happiness and misery always balances itself out. Nothing in existence is all good or all bad. That being said, I'd prefer a less luxurious life in favor of a more simple one, even if it's a return to past miseries

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