A Life Designed
An interesting article on designing one's life. The article discusses how the concepts and principles of design can be used to get more out of life. The idea is that the reason for design is to envision a better way of doing something and then working towards that vision. In the same way, we too can design our lives to derive maximum satisfaction from them. Worth the read, check it out.
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Come on...pink, white, and silver. I don't know if I like his idea that much. Some of the notions within the article are super, but pink, white and silver...No thanks.
I also think it's the sociologist in me that contends that people below a certain income line will not be able to achieve a lifestyle such as this. Silver, pink and white at a thrift store? Tough to find.
I do agree with both the colour disapproval and with the income bracket thing. It is true though that you can make it your goal to be happy everyday, how you achieve that is your perogative and doesn't have to involve possessions etc.
But then I thought about something completely unrelated and I felt like a super-idiot. When I dress for work, I always feel so cheesy. I like to look pretty kitsch and goofy, to be honest, lots of collar. For instance today, I'm sporting a royal blue shirt, primary green (if you could imagine) skirt and yellow, yes, yellow faux-alligator shoes. Hmmm. But I think it's super fun to look like that.
However, I don't look put together, or professional, or adult-like. I pretty much look like a fifteen year old whose boobs have already started to sag. You could picture it - yikes!
So I am going shopping for "work clothes" - something I hate and find wholly unnecessary to me but to this office I fear that it's completely necessary. Unfortunately, like my friend with the low socio-economic status that I mentioned in the previous comment, I have negative dollars. I can afford to blow - maybe - a hundred dollars. So I plan on buying 5 shirts - all the same but maybe in different colors - and 3 bottoms - slacks and skirts. Probably one pair of slacks, because I hate them, and two skirts.
Then I realized, it's what that design guy is doing. I am going to try it because I hate wasting my pretty clothes on work, number one, and number two, I want to bring clothes on Monday and leave with them on Friday. I'm pretty sick of riding my bike to work and arriving with wrinkly shit - and having to carry a big annoying bag. Essentially, I'll be uniforming it, in order to de-hasslize (i.e. take the hassle out) my life.
Is that what this guys talking about? I don't know if I'd want to extend it to my whole life, because what about that day that you just feel like wearing black? What about it?
And then I just realized instead of color I wrote collar. Ha.
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