Cottage Core Weirdos are Creating Fantasy Rural Lifestyle Videos That Are Actually More Effective Than Anti-Anxiety Medication

You might be wondering what cottage core even is. Well, cottage core is a fashion aesthetic and lifestyle trend that has been popularized by young adults and teenagers that fantasizes an idealized rural life. While it sometimes overlaps with, and is not to be mistaken by fairy core and book core, it mostly has become a powerful trend on TikTok that shows the antithesis of city-life glorification.

While the city has its allure, with convenience stores, fast paced lifestyle, and infinite social events to attend, the stress of city life has its drawbacks. Anxiety, depression, and a sense of being generally overwhelmed can be symptoms of city lifestyle.

And boy, do I have the cure for you!!

Bury me in this vintage slip dress oke

Just the sounds alone in this video are soothing.

The simplicity of gauze covered windows, wooded cabins, your teapot, and an analog typewriter seem so freeing from the screens of the modern world, screams of traffic, and constant work phone calls. Cottage core has become a combination of vintage clothing, back-to-basics pleasures, and simplistic living that can reduce stress and anxiety almost instantly.

This place was a dream.

Admittedly, there is a huge part of many of us that would love to learn a folk dance in the grass, while wearing the world’s most comfortable maiden dress. Something about having nothing to do but churn butter and pick wildflowers sounds innately liberating and enticing.

Cottage core has thus taken the Internet by storm with the fantasy notions and the feelings associated.

Although some people actually truly live a cottage core, off-the-grid lifestyle, ironically sharing their experience on TikTok to make us all a little nostalgic and reminiscent at the idea of possibly living our lives in the same way.

to live simply & slowly with my kids in nature ✨

Apparently you don’t have to cosplay to live a cottage core life. However, it makes me wonder what sort of education your children would have, but then again, the opposite side of the coin begs to infer whether or not mainstream education is much better.

There’s so much behind the cottage core movement that has enthralled younger generations. While we have been constantly inundated by sounds, sights, and ideas, it’s sort of nice to unplug and simply imagine what things would be like if we didn’t have all that.

Cottage core, despite seeming silly at first, has proven to be a de-stresser and anti-anxiety outlet for many. Even if we’re imagining faerie-dom and solstice dances while taking the train to our 9-5 job, just a moment of prairie bliss might be enough to calm people down and remind everyone to take a step back to focus on what really matters…

…re-incorporating comfortable, medieval-chic clothing back into the mainstream norms.
 

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