A New Simplicity Movement Is Forming

People are staying home more. Cooking and baking more. Riding bikes more, spending more time with the family.

They are flying less, driving less, shopping less, working less, and running around less.

Will the pandemic be the beginning of a new simplicity? 

This could be the start of something beautiful that heals the planet and saves us from meaningless work and unnecessary consumption.

Here's my guess - after initially feeling like we have lost something, people will see this time as an historic moment during which we gained a new understanding of the collective consumer-induced hypnotic state we have been in since the end of WWII. 

 

I can hear them now:

"At first I didn't like it as I was preoccupied with a sense of loss and sacrifice."

"But then I settled into a slower, less busy, more simple way, and started to see it as an opportunity rather than a curse." 

"Now I wouldn't go back to the way things were pre-pandemic even if I could. I may have less money and stuff, but find myself happier than ever."  

Watch for simplicity to begin breaking out all over the place, in a mass movement that will first make us happier, then save our species and planet.

I see this arising as people become more aware of their impact and of the widespread efforts of many others who share their vision of more simple, less hurried, and sustainable ways of living.

It has to happen eventually, why not now?