February 9, 2005
Bliss
Joseph Campbell once said, "We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." Meghan Cleary in this month’s JC Report writes an interesting piece about the trend for this search for ‘Bliss’.
All this doom and gloom, she says, is giving birth to a new kind of realization: Be yourself. Follow your own path.
Going straight for your Bliss means inventing your own course of action. The fashion business is already seeing the impact of Bliss as Meghan reports:
"Putting intellectualism, individualism, and creativity above conventional business considerations, both Jil Sander and Helmut Lang have recently taken leave of the Prada group. Alber Elbaz, Roland Mouret and Sophia Kokosolaki all turned down offers from LVMH to design for Givenchy, each believing they had a better shot at success (and happiness) if they held their own creative reins.
The masses are following suit, creating and consuming self-help tomes focused on going for pleasure over deprivation, like bestsellers Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts, Your Best Life Now, and The Purpose-Driven Life, as well as debunking fashion uniforms for individual eclecticism."
Like our ChangeThis Manifesto, its all about the TRUTH. There is Yoga in turning down the big job offer to do your own thing.
Following the trend, Nicole Beland also has a book coming out in June called Girl Seeks Bliss: Zen and the Art of Modern Life Maintenance, about how regular girls (and boys too we guess) can use basic principles of Buddhism to cope.
You ready for a little bit of Bliss, PSFKers?
JC Report
Meghan Cleary’s Blog
Joseph Campbell’s Follow The Bliss
Related PSFK Posts
2005 Trends: Idividualism
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