Live with style!

One thing I remember from the era of the 70’s is the way people were living each single day as a big blast of colors, emotions, feelings, without any false modesty!

I’m not talking about their clothes only, but the way they considered each second of their life as a gift. They were happy, I guess, very happy even. They were educated, turned to others, open minded, smiling, and a bit eccentric. Their music was as colored as their clobbers, their tastes very eclectic. They felt alive, without any border between the whole world and themselves.

This era was completely funny, extravagant, out of standards and unconventional. I was a teen, but I remember these years as a big party where I felt very happy. Everybody seemed to be young around me, not only in my family, but also outside, in the streets, on the shops, at the beach, everywhere. Since that time, I often wondered why it has been such amazing to live that decade, so I know now why: it’s just because all these people of the 70′ were living with style!

So I don’t want to talk about fashion nor design, nor music only, I rather think about the way they were: happy. Life wasn’t easy everywhere on the earth, however, but they were involved to go through the issues. They  were trusting in this wind of change that was blowing in the whole world. They were enthusiastic, full of hopes and dreams.

So they made them come true.

How did they do?

They were not more intelligent or educated than people now. They just believed that everything was possible. They were the pure products of an ended time, the one of their parents, very conventional, hard and anchored on the old basis of thoughts. People of the 70’s have cut off the bad and have kept the best of that. They succeeded. Music, arts, design, fashion and ideas came out from the poor neighborhoods, these places the former generation went away from, to build a better life in more beautiful ones.

So they were living the way they wanted: less stress, law, or judgement. They blew on the world a new idea called the New Age movement which was following the Counterculture of the 60’s. It was the birth of a new humanity involved in big causes and new paradigms that are still ours nowadays: spiritualism, alternative medicine, ecology, self development, less of consumerism, etc.

Their style was a mix of all that: the world they were dreaming of, so to live in. No place for jealousy, bitterness, or violence. They used drugs as experiences to get out their body and mind, to be more creative. Lots of them died. But what they have given to us, is that wonderful and huge feeling of the power of love, that freedom of love. Nothing can be compared to that strong movement which still now haunts our time.

This heritage is a big one. So what have we made with it? Shall we pass it on to the next generation?

Love is not just a concept: it’s a way of living. I should say an art of living. Because we all live in a hard world now, where everybody seem to have forgotten the main thing: we are on Earth to make some experiences and to understand its meanings, just to go to love. Not only to move on the idea of love. So living in love doesn’t mean you’ll be a nun or a priest, but a human being involved in spreading more love around them. That’s a style!

So live in style!

Plant your seeds of love at each single minute of our life. Breathe it, share it, blow it as if our mind and our body couldn’t live without it. Begin with a smile, a nice word, a call, a cuddle. To a friend, a colleague, a parent. Do it again. And again. And again. Stop to go to war for any reason, any excuse, in any circumstance. You are an angel come down to Earth: don’t change your path. It’s made of love above all else. So I’m sure you’ll laugh again, you’ll be happy again, full of joy and good feelings. So keep smiling!

Love,

Jane