Would you like to live a more humble life?

Question

This is aimed at everyone, religious or not. Have you ever thought about taking a step back and live without the trappings of modern life? Consider what you could live without. The car? The television? Maybe even you p.c.? Would you be a different person without being told what to wear/eat/believe/think?

I don't have a car because I work from home via my p.c. Without the p.c. I'd need to run a car as I live miles from anywhere with poor public transport. We do have T.V.s in the house but they are seldom used and would probably not be missed. I do consider them to be a good sorce of education and I appreciate that they can be a life-line for many. The majority of the time though, I think that they do dictate ideals. Most people have a need to be told how to think..look at the religious..the television is just another pulpit.

Answer 1

Well, I know I'm different when I'm out camping under the stars so if I lived that way every day it would be wonderful...but how would I get my teeth cleaned and stuff?

Answer 2

What you describe as 'humble' I think of as 'simple' and to a certain extent I do live a simple life.

My wife and I both have jobs that fit around our family time. Neither pays particularly well. We don't spend much on the usual consumer items such as clothes or CDs. Our holidays are usually in this country.

But that doesn't mean we don't appreciate technology. We do have a car, because otherwise there's be no way for my wife to get to work (though mostly I walk). But it's 10 years old. Our TV is a 14" portable.

We do however have a lot of books, live comfortably (and in a city). So I don't think it is necessarily the 'trappings' that make the difference, it's how you view them.

For us very few things are 'essential'. Time to spend together, nice food, a warm house. These get the priorities.

Would I like to live at Walden like Thoreau? Not all the time. After all, Thoreau himself only stayed a couple of years.
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Answer 3

I don't have Internet, as I cannot afford it... I am on someone else's computer right now... I don't have a landline phone, because the plans are too expensive. I have a TV, but it has been on the blink for several months.

I need my car to get me to my job... sometimes I have to be at my job at 2:30 a.m.... the buses don't run at that hour and a cab would be too expensive. So, no, I could not live without the car... I could, but it would be more expensive and/or would involve putting other family members out on my behalf.

The "stuff" a person has or doesn't have, doesn't define humility... humility is a state of one's heart (innermost being).

My goal is to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with my God.

Answer 4

I live in a big city and I always travel by bike.
I can't be told what to think, wear, eat or believe. I wouldn't bear it and would revolt against such a thing. It is my personality. This does not mean I am closed to advice or to learning. On the contrary, I am overdoing my self-criticism. I receive often compliments ranging from my personality, appearance or potential, and always dismiss it -- have not learnt to absorb nice things, to accept them to myself. This is what I have to learn, this is where I can be more humble too -- accept I do have good things in me and people do like me for them and that it is true and that it is ok.
I can do with or without a cell phone, pc, tv, etc. But I wouldn't like to give up listening to music. And books. In fact, I'd like many things to disappear, so that I wouldn't be tempted by the cheap stuff, but rather put more time into good things.
I can take pleasure in luxury and can do very well with very small means. In fact I live very modestly. The humility is within me, it is so much myself I used to even hide all my achievements to people I admired because I mistook it for being vain. Now I am telling you what I know is true and whoever says I am not humble says that because they have no idea. They just have ideas.

Answer 5

I don't think wearing Jesus sandals and looking like you put on something that was thrown at you is going to be much of an improvement.
I don't run a car as I live in the centre of a big city with great public transport and I don't have TV, still I can watch stuff on my laptop if I want to but that's rarely.
I like to choose my own style, I like to cook my own slow food, I like to think for myself already so Gee I guess this question isn't really for someone like me at all.

Answer 6

Yeah sometimes i do. I am a creature of the Earth and sometimes i miss not being as close to it as our ancestors were. I miss not feeling hardwork to achieve something we so take for granted like fire. With me at any rate i occasionaly feel an overwhelming urge to run back to my roots, so many man made pressures are placed upon us today things that ultimately we shouldnt have worries for like mortgages, car breaking down, being late for a meeting etc i think theres times with many people that they just think its too much for my mind to deal with and their probably right we are built to worry about finding shelter, food, etc. The truth is i think it would be very difficult to go back to that kind of life today even if you choose to be a freehold farmer and live more humbly that way being self sufficent from the land youd have to have a substantial amount of cash to fund it and also knowledge about farming, the land, herbology, gardening, animals things we should never have forgot but which modern life has led us to. There was a expeditioner who went to live with a tribe of people in the Amazon jungle these people were basic hunter gatheres. On his first day there one of the elder men turned to him and said "dont talk clever words to me, you cant build your own shelter, you cant make fire, you cant hunt a dear, you cant catch a fish, you are a little boy to me, you are a little boy in the world" And the expeditioner realised that when it came down to it he really was. He stayed with the tribe for many years, but it says alot i think :)

Answer 7

I think most people would be happier living as hunter-gatherers, even if we may not live as long. There are times when each of us desires to be out of the world for a while.

Answer 8

in maximum international locations places yesbut I even have onlly got here across one place have been i become all what you mentioned notwithstanding if it become only for a week. that become madina. all and sundry seeks a non violent/humble existence @ some element of their lives yet maximum human beings don't understand is they'd desire to locate peace in themselves with themselves and are available to words or remedy notwithstanding is nerve-racking their "inner" peace. following a righteous direction: learn learn learn and self displine intergrate islam into your every day existence bit by using bit in managble chunks. notwithstanding if we are meant to worshp allah like time-honored in keeping with hazard our final as in we on no account understand while dying will take us.

Answer 9

Humble is not necessarily what you have, but how you feel about it, and what you will compromise to get it.

We can humble ourselves by honoring others more than they honor us- even our enemies:

10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; 11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Romans 12:10-11 (KJV)

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Answer 10

id like to live a more humble life as in helping other people. so thats what im going to do, im going to work in a school in kenya next year for a month, to help others and make a difference and also appreciate what i have, people dont realise how lucky they are.