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4 Quiet Luxuries of Life To Work Towards

Renuka Gavrani
9 min readJan 28, 2024

What’s a luxury?

Is it to have a Chanel bag, or your ability to feel love towards the life you have at the moment?

If you ask me, I would choose second given I don’t have a Chanel Bag so I wouldn’t know how it feels.

Jokes aside.

I believe the majority of us spend our lives trying to work hard and harder to earn money so that we can buy a bag that is known to be luxurious — and every time you look at it, you can justify the sleepless nights and a hectic life.

As you may already heard, go big or go home. People choose to go big because if you don’t, you are stupid.

I have always wondered though, why would you want to go anywhere if you have the option to go home?

The mere thought of going home, changing into your comfortable clothes, making a cup of coffee, and wrapping yourself in a cozy blanket — tell me if this isn’t heaven, what is?

However, this life is easier. It can be attained by anyone. It can make anyone happy. Thus, making you satisfied with the life you have and the person you are today.

So, our consumerism-focused society played a trick in making us believe that, if you work harder than others, make more money than others, and buy ‘more’ expensive things so you can build a lifestyle that is better than others, then you have become successful — thus, your existence was worth it on earth.

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Renuka Gavrani
Renuka Gavrani

Written by Renuka Gavrani

I talk about slow & Intentional living - taking you closer to a happy life. I am a published author of the book 'The Art of Being Alone': https://a.co/d/531JIFq

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