Why I Live a Simple Life - My Story

Hello ❤️

This is my most personal video. The whole story of why I live a simple life, why I moved to North of Finland, and what I was doing before. It's quite scary to share something really personal to internet, but I feel this story might give you something. Maybe a spark of inspiration or courage to begin your own story.

I hope this video finds you well, and you are able to live a life that makes you feel like yourself ❤️

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Welcome to my world:

[singy]

I am 68. I moved to a mountain village in West Virginia, USA, when I retired at 65. I am a happy man!!

[lyndamilligan]

Less is more....4 years ago....I moved continents to a land utterly foreign, with a language I did not then know, to a village from a an abandoned village Manor, found joy in hard physical work and also found a love I couldn't imagine....i feel your story....well done to you!

[danlindy]

"What I didn't realize is that roots are alive, and you can grow them." Words like these are the mark of a perceptive, coherent, honest, practical and poetic mind.

[sylviamoores]

What a beautiful story…. I was born in a small village in Germany and at about four years old my family immigrated to Canada in a city called Calgary.
I always loved being outdoors, even in the winter months. I didn’t realize as a young child that I too am a sensitive.
I grew up, went to college, learned the trade of cooking and baking which used to give me great joy. Then at 21 unknowingly married a narcissist man who was in the military. I thought I loved him, I thought he loved me. We had two children and I raised my kids to explore the outside. I still loved being outside, walked in the nearby ravines, rivers or small forests to bring me calm, happiness and freedom. Little did I know that my husband over the 34 years we were together, that like a vampire, he took everything that was good in my life, things that made me me. I could no longer listen to the music I love, sing, dance, tell jokes, have friends, crafting and then my beloved baking.
The only time I felt any happiness was working in my beautiful gardens or when we went camping.
It’s been 2 years since he left me, he had left me with very little money, Hugh legal fees, turned my children against me and spreads stories about me to anyone that will listen. I have spent the majority of the past 2 years indoors with my cats crying because he took my entire world from me. But I keep hearing my heart tell me to move to a much smaller town with more nature around me and or possibly buy a small camper or van and slowly just travel and be in the nature that brings the best of me out in the world.

[kerryblaine]

Beautiful story. I am 65 and live in a camper van with my wife in Portugal. We love our simple life. All our possessions fit in the camper. We enjoy our simple life mostly outdoors, hiking, bike riding, yoga. ❤

[DaliTaliani-wzti]

Its been three years since I retired, and while inflation has made it challenging to maintain my lifestyle and even worse when I lived in the city, relocating to the countryside has helped to manage better, its lonely, as most of my friends and family are still in their routines but It's been easier to stretch my savings and hopefully, I won't outlive it.

[robm]

I am old and living alone. My only certain companion is Jesus Christ. Your situation resonates within me. Live in peace.

[bvdelst]

I live in the Netherlands.
And almost my whole life in the city.
In the beginning i can handle it.
But the last years its so overwhelming for me.
There is no silence.
I experience the same things in my body.
I was affaid to have a heart attack or something.
Sometimes I can't even walk, or breathe.

I'm 45 years old.
Our kids have their own life now.
So my husband and I make also a big decision.

We sell our home, and buy a Tiny-house.
We settled down on a peace of land from a farmer, with a few people who has the same dream, to live in a Tiny-house.

We want to live off- grid and self sustainable, with our dog.

I hear the wind, the sound of the leafs, happy birds singing.
And already have seen beautiful skylines.

The sound of nature is so much better than the sound of the city.

The feeling you can breathe again ❤

[laurarichardson]

Being a highly sensitive person, who has suffered from anxiety myself, I have been very happy to be a stay at home wife and mother for years, sometimes doing things to bring in extra money that were creative based or could be done from home. I am still at home, even though my children have grown, and am very content this way. I wouldn't mind finding a job outside the home, but know instinctively, that it would have to be somewhere with either plants or books, and a peaceful environment. For now, I garden, take care of my home, enjoy my art and sewing and heal. I loved your video, and really connected with the things you shared. ❤

[vaphiadis]

This made me cry because I am 50 and feeling totally without choices as I have zero, literally zero money at the moment and feel overwhelmed, sometimes fear and lonely . I had such a busy life, at times a lot of money . I gave it all to looking after children not thinking about myself, believing God will provide. So here I am open armed waiting for an opening an opportunity a MIRACLE because I've been home sick since both my parents died when I was ten. I've done the travelling, the spending, the looking for my purpose, now I have nothing but my faith and it's going to have to do ! I live in belief that something will happen to give me a choice for a simple and fulfilling life with friends and some creative way to sustain myself in a spiritually fulfilling way . Thank you for this video ❤❤❤

[monicathrasher]

It took me 54 years, complete exhaustion and compassion fatigue to finally understand that I am an HSP introvert. I quit my FT nursing career, slowing down to 16 hours a week and take care of me.

[mr__daly]

I moved to London when i was 21 and lived there for 15 years. In 2015 i moved back to Ireland and bought a house in a small village with no mortgage or debt. I live alone and i can say i am very happy too !
Best of luck to you, Sanna. You deserve it.
Peace and respect from Ireland.

[silviediotte]

Very nice story, my daughter is 44 years old .
She Has built herself a tiny house and lives in the forest( Quebec ) away from the cities / sounds. She does now healing massages, let go her master dégrées, listen to her heart/ soul.

[kyna]

Such a beautiful story, and I resonate completely. I am almost 70 and it took me a Long time to figure out what you now know. But out of the blue, 7 years ago, I did a similar thing and moved to a small fishing village in the middle of no where. As a widow, life is hard here, with no one to help when things go wrong. But I manage. And I LOVE the Nature and the Ocean that I am surrounded with. Thank you for sharing your life with us! You are truly Inspiring! ❤❤❤

[robinpitman]

I am an empath and I take on the troubles and heartaches of this world. I’m retired now. Widowed and living alone. Have many friends. But the noise of the world is too much for me sometimes. I need to spend more time in nature. Your story is a reminder of that for me. I find solace in bird watching. They teach us to live in the moment.

[kingwjohn]

Ten years ago I moved from just outside London to a remote location on the west coast of Scotland. I’ve never been happier, 80km to the nearest town nothing is convenient and it simply does not matter. I really resonate with your story, the simple life is so rewarding.

[ukkujpm]

I found my happiness in my own apartment in the middle of the city, Santiago, Chile.
I have a beautiful garden, and feeders for my hummingbirds, since six years they visit me regularly on period of migration, my balcony is for them, they sleep here and sometimes, they get up at midnight to drink, your nectar, it is magic!!
Many greetings
Good vibes for you
Clara
Chile

[davidcottrell]

This is like my story. I lived and loved Chicago for 27 years, and I began to feel disconnected to the city. Three years ago, I bought a cabin along the Illinois River in Havana, a small town in west-central Illinois, and have never felt better! Hiking, kayaking, birdwatching, and being in the open land and fresh air did something for me that Chicago never did. I love to visit the city every now and then, but love coming home to Havana!

[Bloem]

my goodness, i almost see my own story. I can no longer work as a nurse. Complicated infusions of at least 10 patients, admissions, wounds, doctors' consultations and also meetings, going to church on sunday, maintaining friendships, housework...i also got sick. I stopped medicaticion and
moved to the edge of the forest. I write stories, sometimes do some informal care, go to a much smaller house church and for the rest i am at home.
I enjoy the frogs in my pond, the squirrels in the forest, the birds in my garden. I can't do more. Not that i am much happier with more silence...but a lot healthier!

Stay blessed there.

[paulbaker]

Similar story. I bought the most economical car I could find and drove 2000 miles to a remote town where I rested and looked around at a few houses. Then a voice said go and I drove 100 miles to a more remote village arriving in the dark. I turned down a dirt road and slept in the car out in the desert as I was very tired. I’d been sleeping in the car for almost a month. The next day I awoke and met a realtor in the village and he took me to a house right next to where I had slept out in the desert . Its as if I was guided there in the dark. We bought the house and I am healing for the first time in decades. It’s so peaceful here. My partner from Germany came to visit and loves it.