The backwardness of our town is something that I love. I am a country girl and I love living in the countryside. If they love the bustling cities, I DON’T. I am not fascinated with the towering buildings. I do not find malling that fun. I do not easily get hooked with those cars of various models honking their horns on the streets. They can only stress me out. I find the unmindful crowd hastily walking on the sidewalk wearisome to look at. Above all, I am allergic to severe belching of smokes, to the hovering dust.
Of course, I was not born in the old days. The world is constantly changing and the most part of these changes is composed of developments. And like many others, I have embraced these developments attached to modernity. The emergence of high technologies, for instance, has always wowed me. The power of humans’ minds bestowed by the Omnipotent is quite impressive because through them science has unfailingly brought the world to a new higher level.
Amidst all these innovations vying for the attention of anyone of us, I am still much drawn to what the small towns like ours can offer. Our town is one of those slow-paced from activities to gadgets to equipment to machineries to trendy fashions to establishments to almost everything. It is quite ordinary but I find its serenity way worth living for, which to others, a boredom. Nevertheless, I am a sucker for boredom. Their boredom is my way of fun and that simply explains why my preference is very much contradictory to most people of my age…
Because Fun for me is being able to look up, look sideways, look everywhere internalizing every small detail Mother Nature has proudly exhibited before our very eyes…
Because Fun for me is being able to enjoy the moment in solitude, reading, drawing, writing and doing anything that fancies me like those talented protagonists in a famous novel written by Louisa May Alcott called “Little Women”…
Because Fun for me is being able to afford the time mingling, laughing, comforting, working, talking with family and friends…
Because Fun for me is quietude and quietude for me is peacefulness…
I may sound like weird but I am not. I’m neither an introvert nor whatever you think that may fit my personality. It’s just that a quiet place is a peaceful and safe place. Whenever I look at those drawings illustrated in fairytale books, I find those dense cool forests, colorful beautiful flowers, amazing heights of mountains and trees, the country homes and the old lifestyle of people so serene, so peaceful, so content. Believe it or not, but I really do. It makes me wonder how it will be like living in such a beautiful world where contentment is all that matters.
Oh! Don’t get me wrong. Of course, our town does not look like that of those illustrations shown in children’s bedtime storybook.
Simple and peaceful living is what they both have.
I know you may object. But we are entitled to our respective preferences, aren’t we? 
Now, let me share with you something that I love doing. Thankfully, I was able to draw my ideal place in the best way I could. I had published this masterpiece of mine last year but made some revisions on My 20th Drawing: Country Life. Don’t just take a look. Go beyond what you see. 
my drawing: jinjin corvera's "Simple Living" drawing_2011: Previously published without "transparent sheet". Now, i republish it but with that "transparent sheet".
Note: This post should have been published last week. I’m a new member of the Post A Week 2011, remember? But my mind was kinda messy. It even is until now. I just hope I’m able to deliver my message right.
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Comments on: "Simple Living" (2)
For some reason, your drawing reminds me of Grandma Moses’ works. Google her and you’d see what I mean.
I like the peace and quiet too. I’m lucky that even though I live in a city, it is small, there’s no traffic, and we are surrounded with farms. Even our own house has a tranquil garden, where we can sit , drink coffee, listen to the water fountain, and look at the flowers, the butterflies, and yes, our sweet hummingbirds . Yes, we all have that here.
hi renx!
thanks for always sharing your thoughts here in my attention-seeking blogsite.hahah.. super thanks! I do appreciate it a lot. 
anyway, I googled her and saw some of her artworks like “Beautiful World”, Grandma Moses Mt. Nebo, etc..Thanks for sharing it to me..OMG! Those masterpieces (Beautiful World and the rest) are so difficult and so beautiful! I’ve managed to read some info about her..something like using house paint, that it’s primitive art, “self-taught art” etc. she does her obra maestra using paint and other painting materials while I do mine via photoshop. I am not using the real pencil and brush. Instead, I use MOUSE to click and drag those tools such as pencil, brush and that “bucket of paint”. I love colors and it’s pretty obvious in my works. all my pieces are heavy with colors!
in some ways, however, we’re the same. Like grandma Moses, mine is also an example of a “self-taught art”. nobody teaches me how to use photoshop (that’s the reason why I know only the very basic of its basics). nobody told me it’s possible to draw via mouse (not the real pencil) and that application. i teach myself by exploring.
I had published all my artworks here before but now, most of them are privately hidden.
You have a garden?wow! we don’t have one.
i think, I’m gonna love your place 
it’s soothing and lovely just imagining those garden, flowers, birds, fountain and butterflies. 