This week, the island is battered by wind and rain. Last weekend, the Taiwan Anthropological and Ethnological Society held an exciting two-day conference themed "Slow... Anthropology." What captivated me most was the discussion about the rhythm of life. Today, let me share with you the essential lifestyle that goes beyond just making a living!

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How can one integrate into a community? This is the question I kept asking myself two years ago while doing fieldwork in the small fishing village of Luermen. What does it mean to truly live with the locals? Before doing so, I needed to understand what "life" truly meant. After a few days of exploring, I realized the importance of "rhythm" in life.

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Everyone has different values, upbringings, and ways of speaking, as well as different occupations and social statuses. But beyond that, each person also has their own pace of life. The rhythm of life differs from one village to another. Often, the feeling of not fitting in isn’t just about obvious things like dress or speech; it's about not being able to sync your life’s rhythm with that of others.

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The renowned French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu discussed the importance of time in his work The Logic of Practice. Often, the power to decide the rhythm of life—who speaks first—is a manifestation of power and symbolic capital.

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Everyone’s life is like a song. The residents of a village or members of a social class may share a certain rhythm, and if you're not in sync with that rhythm, you’ll feel out of place, like noise. So, capturing the rhythm of life and understanding your own song allows you to live life with a unique rhythm—something worth pondering.

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If you want to change your lifestyle, start by changing your relationship with time. Live life more leisurely, make it more orderly, and master your life’s rhythm. Perhaps that will lead to a real transformation.

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