Minh Trang

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Tätigkeiten, die mich interessieren:

gardening, playing with natural ingredients, homebuilding, permaculture, community engagement, arts & craft, DIY, close-to-nature living, enrichment activities, daily life, adventure, freestyling

Beschreibung

[This sharing was composed two years ago in 2022)

My name is Trang. I am 31 years old. I was born in Hanoi, Vietnam. I had lived in Singapore for 15 years for studies and work before I quit my full-time corporate job 2 years ago.

At that time, I had felt deprived of true richness for me, which is spiritual, emotional, and intellectual fulfillment. I felt my attention space in the adulthood contexts being invaded by the permeating presence of materials and pervasive surrounding embodiments of materialism. Coupled with little time and energy left after work, I felt compressed inner space and diminished company in my life for treasured richness like the candid moments, the little joys, sharing, bonding, connecting, emotional support, expression of creativity, playing, exploring, experimenting, and doing things for the sake of joy.


During my current break, I stay in my home country. I have been making solo trips for short-term stays in coastal and mountainous cities in Vietnam, and to Australia and Japan recently, in search of experiences of an alternative living environment, away from unwanted societal stimulations, closer to nature and more spaciousness of physical surroundings, to attain inner spaciousness for myself.


In the fabrics of adulthood city life that I have experienced, there is not much space to connect on a fundamental, heart-to-heart level. There is often the presence of forceful impositions, remarks, judgments, and pressurising focus on superficial and frivolous values, induced by self-detached social norms and behavior patterns and absorbed notions to go along with pre-existed socio-economic constructs. There is almost always mention of money and material gains like they are the holy grail; and almost none on something more fundamental like good-hearted and thoughtful intentions, or authentic feelings and related personal well-being, or any active concern over the moral ambiguity of business practices. There emerge pervasive accounts of unscrupulous and heartless business behaviors that disregard care and concern for whom and what they affect, trouble, or hurt. The marketplace and industry have revealed themselves to be such a demoralising zone that I just wanted to disengage.

To me, this embedded reality is a blow to the human spirit, with which I have struggled to make peace for many years. This set me off on a journey to reach out to a more enriching reality for myself in this current context of the human world that we can never truly be separated from. As much as possible, I would like to fill my time and preserve my direct personal space for what I am intrinsically driven to engage and how I care.

A life of feeling fresh and at ease, true and natural, living in alignment with my conscience, the foundation of which life is a conducive home base. A home base where there is no questioning, only understanding. A home base where I can do gardening and immerse in my inspirations for expression. I imagine for myself a physical home that is airy and bright, cozy and functional, in peaceful surroundings of inviting nature, kind-hearted and mindful social fabrics, neat and humbling infrastructures, where inner spaciousness and peace are supported.


Removing myself from the pre-designed mold of life progression and its perceived notion of security in the past 2 years has been invaluable for my life, because it just didn't feel right to me to submit to a continuing life that felt so mechanical, personally disconnecting, and un-enriching. It has been invaluable because now I am free to attempt to choose how I want to spend my time. Venturing out and exploring have stretched the boundary of my life experiences to not be stuck in, and allowed me to be more informed about my wishes.

Throughout the journey that has not been without inner turbulence induced by absorbed self-impositions and headwinds of expressed external pre-conceptions that invalidate feelings and oppress the self, I honed more grounding, context after context, in my daily life, in new environments and interactions, with my family, with enacted choices, with familiar "secure" options, to honor what I feel and don't feel, to gauge myself, and to live naturally like a little child again (less forced engagement, less self-pressure, more self-exploration). My wish is to re-embody the spirit of the child in me, void of self-consciousness, unperturbed, carefree, living in the moment and to her heartbeat.


There is a natural course or order, and for me, reflection has always been called for first and foremost. With everything that I had been feeling, reflection was an important undertaking for me to process unsettled feelings, resolve inner conflicts (which I have felt might be the gist of the human experience), and solidify intentions. When I first started my break, I immediately went to a mountainous village to stay by myself, to have a safe and quiet space for my feelings. I figured, "I don't have the drive for anything else, interest or intention, if I don't feel fine". It is also intrinsic to me to be intentional, so I often take time to gauge my feelings, to make deliberate actions that I feel aligned with.

Right now, I have not found it worthwhile to engage committedly in something out there before living my life naturally first. And so, I am still continuing on the quest of following what I feel compelled to do at each stage. Right now, it is to go for further experiences of living near nature and taking on subsistence tasks. I would like to learn more practical life skills to take care of myself in an essential way, live a more organic life, and feel more into this life setting and inform myself. Next would be seeing to a stable home base for myself, after 2 years of having lived in temporary homes on the road and in my parents’ home.


These days, nothing instills in me more peace and nourishment than pictures of natural environments, greenery, and videos of gardening and life in the countryside. A simple life feeling natural among nature, marveling at nature, where I get involved with things that mean something to well-being, not doing and being dependent on work that I don't relate to in terms of serving true well-being. A simple life where I am detached from the futile human-induced stress, drama, overload, and slavery to our own devices.

I have thought a lot about where to place my efforts in shifting undesirable situations in the world, but it keeps coming back to me that the most impactful point I could act from is to re-claim my life and embody a nourishing life for myself first. This I have much more control and influence over, rather than attempting to budge a huge system that can take time to turn around, and even then, impacting maybe only an aspect of the current socio-economic life design.


My hope for more immersive experiences closer to the sources of life is that,

- I see natural forces at play and make peace with the circulation of life/energy as part of nature;
- I understand first-hand what it takes and entails to source for things and support myself; how I can do it with care and in a regenerative way;
- I get into being more hands-on and less hands-off with how things are done for my livelihood;

Examine for myself these consciously torn feelings I have had,

- How it is to have a healthy boundary with nature and be close to nature;
- How I can make of my consciousness of sourcing from the environment in terms of other life forms (all life forms wish to be alive) and earthly materials (the industrial extraction of which could involve conflicts of resources, misplacement, displacement, discardment) and supporting myself as a biological being;
- How industry started off in pursuit of introducing more ease in daily life and has its merits and what material inventions I would consider worthwhile and useful for the collective comfort and fulfillment of the human race, in light of a self-resilient and energy-conscious life;
- How the human race is not the only species on earth and providing selfishly for ourselves and superfluous needs with an entitled attitude on resources doesn’t interest me; how there is a whole world out there to care for beyond the human race;
- How we have all been benefactors of modernness, of useful and practical inventions, amenities, facilities, and set-ups. How do we make of that, in terms of our relationship with the establishments and the greyness of it?
- How there is an abundance of nature with respect to what I humbly source for in my lifetime, and how I can consider it as receiving instead of taking;
- Now that we have sourced plenty of raw materials, how do we make the best use of or transform, existing infrastructures and tools, to serve collective well-being, basic and higher needs, and to go around?

Interessengebiete

Kochen & Backen

Camping

Tiere

Gärtnern

Darstellende Künste

Natur

Outdoor-Aktivitäten

Nachhaltigkeit

Schreiben

Vegetarier / Veganer

Gebirge

Musik

Wandern

Gartenarbeiten

Farmarbeit

Radfahren

Heimwerken & DIY

Tanzen

Zeichnen & Malen

Karitative Arbeiten

Bücher

Kunst & Design

Erlebnissportarten

Gesprochene Sprachen

Englisch: Fließend
Vietnamese: Fließend

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- I am inquisitive, self-dependent, proactive, responsible, and observant.
- I am meticulous and care about doing a thoughtful and careful job, especially when it plays a foundational role. I also care about doing things optimally and efficiently.
- I think thoroughly and seek to understand, so explaining can come relatively naturally to me. I attempt an organized and thoughtful approach to undertakings, as that is when I can go about the task with more ease.
- I am good with following directions and also figuring things on my own. I like to figure things out on my own, be experimental, and learn through experience and understanding.
- I cook.
- I keep my living spaces clean and tidy and I am good with housework.
- I can be resourceful with handy and improvisation tasks around the house.
- I have done some slight gardening, including seed germination, planting, weeding, composting, fertilizing.. I have sparingly read and watched videos on gardening and permaculture.
- I like creating surprises and being creative and freestyling with arts & crafts and interactive activities.
- I recently took a few lessons in drawing and painting. I am trying to get more into the habit of practicing drawing, to fulfill my illustrative intentions.
- I journal often, so I am relatively comfortable with writing and expressing myself.
- I enjoy doing physical labor work that I can manage. I have had slight exposure to building wooden fences and brick walls from recent Workaway experiences.

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I am sensitive, reflective and introspective. I care about being thoughtful, considerate, truthful, sincere, understanding, accommodating, and sharing authentically.

To me, it comes down to inner peace, being your natural self, expressing your essence and potential, engaging, connecting, caring, and sharing. These are the moments that would flash back and warm the heart.

My go-to hobby is singing. Singing comforts and releases my spirit. Practicing for it gives me lots of joy of self-discovery and good challenges.

I often ask myself questions and like to explore the depth of things.

I appreciate having personal space to retreat to and recharge when needed.

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  Allergien
  I'm quite afraid of insects but I am more used to them lately after exposures of living close to nature.

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  Spezielle Ernährung
  I eat mostly vegetarian food, but not yet exclusively non-meat