Escaping Expectations and Learning to Live at My Pace

What am I really resting from? A whole lot and I'm not kidding when I say I'm not even aware of how great the pressure is out there on me because I've slowly started to relieve myself off them. Pressure from all areas in one's life are more than reasons to find a slow living environment to live.

Honestly, I didn't know much about how to actually live slowly because I felt it was normal to hurry through everything. A video clip I watched some days ago revealed how my life had been and how much I've changed... A lady reminding herself to slow down in eating, walking, in living.

I had to teach myself to eat more slowly, bath with more care of my body, rest when I'm tired, take slow walks and I learned to talk to myself with more calm and positivity. I am still learning but the difference have been a lot more than I ever imagined. We miss so much when we rush.

Now, that I am slowly learning to live slowly, what am I really resting from? If I want to be more specific, I am resting from the rush that pressures are placing on me. Pressure of being where my mates are, pressure of being married, pressure of figuring out my life and to be wealthy.

I understand when friends and random strangers ask questions about these aspects of my life to place pressure on me, they don't really know me. But the pressure from my family members who I've somehow made to believe I've got things in control on my end, the pressure is a lot different.

Since I have to live with them most of my life, I definitely need a kind of life where I can rest from the pressure they place on me even though they don't mean to do it, it's all from a place of care which I appreciate. When I find my own space, even though little, I can think clearly off pressure.

So yeah, I do need the Slow-living for that reason and for other reasons like, away from social media pressure especially of constant comparison and the feeling of not being enough. Recently, I've learned how to make my social algorithm give what will help me grow instead.

And I also decide when to spend time on social media and find time to do something slow, intentionally. It's not easy and not a regular practice yet but the times I've done it helped me a great deal. In this way, I've learned new things about myself and I've been able to live with less pressure than is actually placed on me by people.