I remember the good old times when I was around 16 or 17 years old when you wanted to find an attractive person, you just had to wait for the weekends and go to the local disco where everyone went to, and those people, in that place at that moment, were your options.
So, if you wanted anything, the moment was there. Now, the emergence of dating apps cursed the picky among us with literally hundreds of millions of users.
The time the average person spends swiping and chatting on those apps just to get a date is ridiculous.
With all these choices, all these products screaming to be purchased, all this stuff we're afraid to miss out on, it's pretty easy to get lost.
We spend so much energy, time, and money acquiring all these things we're supposed to have that consumerism has become a religion, with shopping malls as the new churches, in which we don't look for God but seek to purchase the bigger, better thing.
So, what's a more potent way to break free from this than embracing simplicity?
How about cultivating simple tastes, simple pleasures, simple choices, going for "good enough" instead of "always the best" (yes, that counts for dating, too)?
How about cutting down your options instead of exposing yourself to the entire arsenal of choices, not comparing too much, and endlessly analyzing which purchase to make?
How about contentment independent from all these tidal waves of stuff?
Such an embrace of simplicity frees us from rampant consumerism, which is an excellent benefit because being free from these shackles means we can spend our energy on, well, just living life, unless shopping till you drop and spending hours choosing what to buy is how you wish to live.
