Comments on: Koinophobia: The Fear of Being Ordinary & How to Overcome It https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/fear-of-being-ordinary/ Earn, Save, and Live Joyfully. Fri, 19 Jan 2024 03:23:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: A Phobia of Phobias – Plums of Norm https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/fear-of-being-ordinary/comment-page-1/#comment-1127867 Fri, 19 Jan 2024 03:23:45 +0000 https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=37015#comment-1127867 […] classification of human conditions as a mass of competing phobias competing to avoid being Koinophobic. More and more phobias blossom from the fake news everyday in the race to be more special and […]

]]> By: One Frugal Girl https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/fear-of-being-ordinary/comment-page-1/#comment-1116328 Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:28:05 +0000 https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=37015#comment-1116328 In reply to Nworth.

Thank you! I suppose I didn’t consider the extraordinariness of my life until I read these comments. I appreciate your kind words.

]]> By: Nworth https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/fear-of-being-ordinary/comment-page-1/#comment-1116294 Wed, 12 Jan 2022 07:34:28 +0000 https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=37015#comment-1116294 Nice read. The best I liked – “Don’t fear being ordinary, fear being stagnant”!!!
Not possible for an “ordinary” person to put such thoughts in writing. Of course – you are FI and not many people even with tons of money can say that with conviction. In that sense, I’d say there is a huge element of “extraordinariness” there.

]]> By: One Frugal Girl https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/fear-of-being-ordinary/comment-page-1/#comment-1116051 Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:47:11 +0000 https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=37015#comment-1116051 In reply to She’s FIRE’d.

It’s definitely cycled and changed for me as well. I am happy to be in this phase of life, as I know you are too. There is a confidence that arrives ever so subtly with age.

]]> By: One Frugal Girl https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/fear-of-being-ordinary/comment-page-1/#comment-1116050 Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:45:51 +0000 https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=37015#comment-1116050 In reply to steveark.

Thank you for this incredibly kind and thoughtful comment.

]]> By: She's FIRE'd https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/fear-of-being-ordinary/comment-page-1/#comment-1116026 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:04:59 +0000 https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=37015#comment-1116026 Great post. I think I’ve cycled through this. I so desperately wanted to fit in when I was a kid, but I couldn’t. Then I valued being different, mostly because I couldn’t figure how not to be, and thought I might as well embrace it. Now I’m a housewife enjoying the slower pace of life. How life changes!

]]> By: steveark https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/fear-of-being-ordinary/comment-page-1/#comment-1115961 Thu, 16 Dec 2021 20:09:31 +0000 https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=37015#comment-1115961 You are far from ordinary. Ordinary people don’t walk away from a high paying career. They don’t give away their possessions. I think you are very special and intentional about how you choose to live. Ordinary people are chasing possessions and material toys and deep in debt. I know what you are saying, that your life is not flashy or trendy spendy, that you have chosen a better path. But if you are ordinary it is in a very special way!

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