Food for thought: living well

**KeithBC** · 08-14-2010, 11:55 PM

The whole article is an interesting look at various forms of addictive behaviour that we tend to think of as normal. This quote stands out:

Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.

The article is here.

Most people think I'm weird, and that's a good thing.

**frugalwarrior2** · 08-15-2010, 10:18 AM

My new food habits are being deemed as "obsessive" and I've been that weird girl who thinks too much,for YEARS.

**Vanilla** · 08-15-2010, 12:45 PM

Very interesting article. Thanks.

**JanieD** · 08-16-2010, 04:35 PM

Interesting article. Maybe a read a little too much into the article, but seems the simple life is more important than ever.

**Dancing Lotus** · 08-16-2010, 05:05 PM

"if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly. "

I think that about sums it pretty well.

**NikoSan999** · 08-20-2010, 07:56 AM

Guess I'm totally out of the norm here, which I usually am but about 75% disagree with the article and what he's saying. Found 2 things that I think he's being a hypocrite about. But that's just my opinion.

**andrew's mom** · 08-20-2010, 12:30 PM

I think I have been weird for years but I guess it's become more "pronounced" lately as I have eliminated cable from my life, I buy clothes at Goodwill only when I need them, I have my own vegetable garden, I have a pre-paid cell phone that is totally bare bones, I don't drink alcohol hardly at all and have been buying a lot of organic foods.
I have recently started meditating in the morning and in the afternoon which by "normal" standards would be insulting. I am "non-doing", sitting there repeating my mantra over and and over again for an hour every day. I am not doing anything, "being productive" in any way. But let me tell you what. I have started paying attention to my life, my thoughts, my emotions, what I feel in relationship to other people, situations, things, etc. I have started paying attention to my choices and decisions, I feel I have been asleep at the wheel of life and all of a sudden I woke up and car was driving by itself. It has shown me how much I was letting life get by, without me doing much about it. It has thrown back at me the responsibility of making all the decisions if I wanted a good life for myself. It has scared the crap out of me and also gave the freedom that I can be in charge, think for myself, know myself and get to know others. I have no idea where it will take me, and that my friends, it's the most wonderful thing.
Love and peace, Mea :-).