The lifestyle

If I want to describe what the lifestyle is, I don’t have a dictionary, but I do have a thesaurus in my word processor, so it will suffice. Also, this is how I perceive a lifestyle according to my own lifestyle, and I will try to be as objective as possible about it. I believe that a lifestyle is what you are, what makes you the person you are. The words available in my thesaurus are; existence, routine, life, regime, way of life, standard of living, daily life and means.

If I had to choose one of those words, I would choose the way of life and the standard of living. Because your way of life perfectly describes your lifestyle. So, describe the way you live, or how you live, live your life. Your standard of living affects the way you perceive the people around you. And because of your standard of living, you will judge people accordingly. It also affects your perception of life in general and your way of thinking. Your standard of living also affects your perception of what is right and what is wrong.

So what you consider correct could be considered incorrect by other people. So if you have a lifestyle where you have a job in the corporate system and you go to work seven to five every day to support your family, then for you, this is the right thing to do. For you, owning a fancy home and fancy car, having four kids in school and a wife who also works to maintain your finances, is okay for you, and then for you, that’s the right thing to do. If other people don’t live up to your perceptions of what is right and what is wrong, then for you, it is wrong. Although other people feel differently, and live differently from their standard of living, and their lifestyle agrees with them that it is okay for them to live like this, they think that their way of life is wrong. But it is neither good nor bad, it is about the perception of each person.

So each person has their own lifestyle, or standard of living, and you live according to how you perceive your life. There are also many influences on your lifestyle, in addition to how you already perceive how life should be lived. The main influencers in your life are your parents. From a very young age they taught you their way of life, that you have led it, so you tend to live according to what your parents taught you. Other influential people in your life are religion. You live according to your religion, be it Christianity, Muslim, Hinduism, and any other religion you find in this world. Religion is a way of life because you will live according to their standards of living, according to their laws and regulations, and according to their perceptions of good and evil. Hope this makes sense to you; I’m just trying to be objective and explain it to the best of my ability. My next task will be to try to explain the alternative.