Ah, the good old days!

Everyone is likely to use that expression at one point or another. Are we all nostalgic about the past? Was life easier, were there less problems? There's probably some truth to some of this thinking; what's obvious however is that life was much simpler. Less things to do, to remember, less gizmos to enslave us and with it, much less expectations. The more we complicate our lives, the harder it is to manage and the more likely we'll experience, breakdowns, failures and disappointments. I believe we all know this, but how do we disentangle ourselves from that web of dependencies and still experience a satisfying life?