It’s another day in paradise. I kid you not. I live in such a beautiful part of the planet as far as climate and geography are concerned. The conditions are just ideal for a permanent holiday lifestyle. And so I have been living the most idyllic beach lifestyle for over fifteen years in this region called the Garden Route on the southernmost shores of Africa.
Today's section of beach is dotted with organic rock sculptures
I move around in this area from one end to the other, and yet I always have the same epic stretch of beach and forest and mountain to turn to for recreational and other healthy activities. Keeping life simple has worked out well and led to a sublime life throughout.
The journey is only improving with age and maturity and wisdom based on experience and education. I have never stopped having fun and doing what I like. I work for myself and make my own system of work parameters. There is no pressure and no deadlines. Most of my time is my own and I use it to pursue education, content creation and achieving goals in a playful way without it feeling like work.
Another angle on the rock formations on my paradise beach
Few people have the freedom that I have to live every day as I choose in my preferred environment, which just happens to be very healthy and spacious and clean. And at the same time I own no property, run no business, have zero debt and actually have never had debt in my life.
I own very little possessions and have only one family member in my life. I am in a small town far away from the vast majority of the world’s population at the foot of Africa, in a sublime holiday resort with warm Indian ocean and long soft white sandy beaches that stretch for miles.
A truly beautiful stretch of wild and seldom explored coastline that stretches like this for miles to the east
Perhaps a handful of people can be seen on the one stretch of beach and perhaps even less on the other. So much freedom and space is just exhilarating. My income streams are multiple and some are, of course, based on cryptocurrency investing and earning and via this Hive blogging blockchain.
African living may be third world but it is easy and healthy. What a blessing to have been born and raised and lived my whole life on this shoreline within a 600km stretch from Cape Town in the west to the Garden Route in the east. I have some idea of how people in India live as well as Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mauritius, from my travels there. And by comparison I have a pretty good deal. It includes some of the most beautiful beach and coastline in the world.
A little camp site for the eternal moment
Add to that the vast open surrounding natural environment of forest and mountain with mild climate all year long and no tropical or snowy weather at all. No earthquakes and volcanoes. What a pleasure. There may be six hour power cuts nowadays but they don’t affect me too much since I don’t need a heater or fan. The climate is just fine all year long for my liking. People work hard at a job they dislike all year long so that they can spend a week or a month in my world.
Then they go back to their grind while I remain in the holiday resort on holiday every single day of my life. Without having ever paid a single penny in tax. I’m under the tax bracket. And all of this is free. You could have it too, if you had the mindset and perception of reality that I have. I refrained from adopting too many chains or burdens of any sort and kept it light all my life.
With no relationship drama, no kids and no boss or staff, I am a sigma male. I walk alone and I do it my way, outside the general herd. You can look that up if you wish. No more alpha or beta, but sigma. I am self-sufficient both financially and emotionally. I am very happy and have made my own way without any inheritance funds.
Actually for the first thirty years of my life I had no bank account or money of my own. I only started looking for work to earn money after thirty. Before that I was a monk in a yoga ashram where I trained and taught for ten years without salary or needs of any sort. All my needs were met. I learned a massive amount and all of it has led to me being able to live such a high quality of life in what feels like paradise or a permanent holiday for me every day of my life.
Having spent those ten years being of service and studying and self-improving, I now feel self-actualized to a degree. I feel fulfilled and my life has achieved some sort of magnum opus, not only in the deeds I have accomplished but also in the creative content that I have produced, most of it thanks to the Hive blockchain. Having now written and published more than 1100 essays and over a million words, I feel that I have a legacy and it is on the blockchain for posterity. For what it’s worth.
An inviting place to have a swim with the dolphins and whales
I have earned financial rewards from my creative output and want to thank Hive devs and the Hive team who have provided this platform and this opportunity to fulfil a dream and live the dream. Blockchain and cryptocurrency have allowed many of us digital nomads to live out our ideal lives in a healthy way and I am a living example of the success that can be achieved via the combination of just the right ingredients and information.
Portrait of the author as a bitcoin babaji
May you also achieve a sense of fulfilment and success in your life while simultaneously keeping your health and wits about you. In today’s world you are a good role model and example, so keep following your dream and your bliss. It’s what will uplift the rest who need us to shine our light in these darkening times.
(photos my own)