[ENG] A Twenty-Year-Old Talks About Slow Life
There’s something that happens pretty often: whenever I think about slow life, the thoughts always show up during quiet moments. Those small pauses where you finally breathe.
And yeah, this post is written all in one go no script, no outline. Talking about something this personal wouldn’t feel right if it were “perfectly structured”.
I’m not trying to sound deep or dramatic. I just want to share how I live slow life at twenty one. An age where, technically, I should be rushing around, doing everything, being everywhere.
Spoiler: I’m not.
Living Light… But Not in the Way People Think
A fast paced life doesn’t just appear. We build it, piece by piece, without even noticing.
Socials, constant notifications, infinite content, that feeling of having to keep up it all piles up.
Technology makes life easier, sure… but it also makes everything addictive.
So for me, slow life starts from something very simple:
removing what you don’t need and what isn’t good for you.
And no, I don’t mean becoming some extreme minimalist. I actually don’t agree with the whole “3 white shirts, one spoon for dinner” thing.
I’m a consumer, honestly. I like objects. I like having tools for every need. And you know what? That’s fine.
Slow life doesn’t mean owning less.
It means giving meaning to the things you choose to keep.
Not Minimalist, Just Intentional
Take me, for example: I love retro gaming and I have a bunch of consoles PSP, Nintendo 3DS, a PlayStation 5, a PC, a Miyoo Mini Plus.
For reading, I have an Xteink X4 that weighs nothing and goes everywhere with me, and a Book Go 10.3 for studying, taking notes, or reading manga.
None of these things make my life complicated.
They actually make it better.
Because each of them has a moment, a purpose, a reason to exist in my day.
Bringing the X4 with me means I can read two pages while waiting in line at the checkout.
Using the Book Go means I can take notes, dive deeper into books, and give myself an hour of genuinely “slow” reading.
The Real Cost of Slow Life
To live more slowly, I had to remove things way heavier than objects: toxic people.
People who didn’t help me grow, who made me feel bad, who felt “right” only because I was used to them.
And when you start cutting that out… you end up alone.
It’s pretty much inevitable.
Not because you become an asshole, but because you finally become yourself.
And that, for better or worse, doesn’t sit well with everyone.
For someone like me someone who takes things personally, who feels excluded easily it was honestly a painful process.
But it’s also the reason why I finally feel like the only real owner of my time.
It’s an investment in yourself. One of the best ones you can make.
What Slow Life Actually Looks Like
Slow life isn’t some strict list of activities you check off like a to-do list.
But there are habits that keep coming back, things that help you breathe a bit more:
- a walk after dinner
- an hour at the gym or a run
- a hot tea while reading or writing
- trying a new recipe
- lying on your bed doing nothing
- playing a calm videogame and getting lost in the story
- enjoying silence
- listening to your playlists without rushing anything
They’re simple things, but once you start living them fully, time stops slipping away like before.
I work full time from 9 to 6 with a lunch break in the middle my free time is limited, but it feels like so much more ever since I started living at a different rhythm.
My fear isn’t “time passes so you’re dying”.
It’s “time passes and you’re not doing anything with it.”
The Simple Things Do the Heavy Lifting
I genuinely think good things don’t happen by accident.
They happen because you’re in them, because you’re part of whatever brought them to that moment.
And that’s what makes slow life so special: it makes you notice the details a smell, a look, a tiny moment.
There’s nothing that makes me feel better than my early morning coffee, reading a book, watching people enjoy their own little calm moments, writing, learning, becoming more interesting, more knowledgeable, more myself.
And if one day I find something that makes me feel even better, great.
Final Thoughts
And that’s pretty much it my raw reflection.
Slow life isn’t perfect, and it’s definitely not easy to start.
But it does let you actually live the things you do.
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