I was born and raised in a small town having this not so big but not so small land to play with my dog friend or any other farm animals, climbing and talking with my mango tree friend. But then teenager life hits me and began to wonder how it feels like living in the city with a luxurious life and then I grow and then my legal age just came so fast and I realized how I love my life and how I love living simple. These pictures sum up all of my experiences during 2020 that makes my life change and will make your cottagecore fanstasy turns into reality.
One day people around the world giving a lot of hearts with those accounts on this social media platform called Instagram , the life in a cottagecore dream, seeing pictures of farms, flower fields, animals and aesthetically pleasing pictures of someone or something with a cottage life. Little did they know its beautiful living yes, yet its also pretty hard.
March 8, 2020 I came back home from the University I've been studying because of quarantine. Days, weeks and month had past and I'm still not doing anything remarkable. I've been stuck on my phone , scrolling and liking and watching the life I wanted but I didn't do anything to make it happen. The media system badly influenced me, in a way that I forgot what makes me happy when I was a kid when I am home. Until I realized this need to be stop. I went out and ignore my phone and just turn it on when it is needed the most . Finally my inner child was back, I started hanging out with my family at the farm just watching the cat or dog running and sometimes just sit there in the afternoon till the sun comes down, watching the sky turns to orange ,purple and then the darkness that shows the stars. Everything is perfect specially when all of it was done with your loved ones.
But, I am not a child anymore, I was a fully grown up woman now that needs to take the responsibilities that life was giving. Though I am always doing usual household chores like cleaning the house ,washing the dishes and do some laundry, I am still not satisfied. I want to do something that is out of my comfort zone and explore what else can I do.
It was May 2020 when papa called my brother so they can go to farm together but i insisted to go too ,papa started to plow the soil and a minute later he told us to pick up the grasses, we started from 9 am to 1pm knowing that this was a tropical country which makes that time burning hot, we stopped for an hour for lunch break ,my mama went to the farm to give the food that they(with my sister) cooked at the house and continue to work at 2pm, by 3 pm we had a break and papa started to tell stories about the presidents in the past , after that we resume working but papa told us to stop already so while papa is still working ,me and my brother had the chance to take some pictures because it became our hobby since we got our first phones, after that we went home already.
Seems so easy but it doesn't stop there, after the plowing the next days are harder , for able to grow the perfect rice we were expecting my papa started to put a water pump beside the river,dont forget to put away those water lilies and then connect it with a very long tube to water the whole lot acre of soil he plowed and where he puts the rice seeds. For able to finish the task he needs to check the water pump for every hour of three or four to check if it still have gas on it so it can work well and then check if the soil got enough water. When the seeds are sprouting he needs to check if there's no animals like birds and rats who eats the seeds and the sprout itself until it grows taller and taller. Luckily we harvested a lot of rice from the farm after a long wait because there's no heavy rain fall and drought that comes in a way.
We are living with farm animals too like chickens which me and my family are feeding especially my papa, every morning and every afternoon before they went up to the tree or their cages for them to sleep, he also takes care of goat , goose, turkies and ducks.
Me my siblings and my mom also help on cleaning our whole backyard and frontyard.
I started to plant fruit trees and water the plants too. I also explore my cooking skills which makes me a better cook now than before and sometimes I do it with my mama or my sister as a bonding that connects us all together again. My brother also starts to do household chores more often and do other task that he's not doing before which makes me so proud and so happy.
A cottagecore life is more than a dream and its even hard when you just fantasize it with simple and always beautiful life which is not, a cottagecore life always needs a commitment in everything , it needs a lot of work to maintain especially the farm which you need to take care even at night just to make sure you will have a good harvest, living in a cottagecore, you need to give your blood,sweat and tears all in all. But above all simple life or a cottagecore life is beautiful and satisfying after the very hardwork plus the happy and more connected family that you gain especially me after the year 2020.I appreciated more the life that I am with right now than before and I embrace it.
