Simplicity: Practicing Contentment

How many times have you asked someone how they're doing, only to have them reply, "Busy." For how many of us is that our regular answer too? So much of our lives have felt propelled by the forward momentum generated by the multitude of commitments that dominate our schedule, and the multitude of things that we think we "need." In a world that has, for many of us, come to a screeching halt, what if this was that moment! What if we just decided to press "pause" on life, and restart again but at a significantly slower pace and on a significantly lower scale? How would it affect who we become if we could learn to live more simply?