Both were born and raised in the country, with animals and tasks in the household. During high school, they moved to the city. They followed college, jobs, and a rhythm of life that brought them to the brink of collapse. As city life seemed gray to them, Sebastian and Bianca Badicel they decided to return to the quiet days of the village. They searched for a while and still couldn’t find a house that suited them, but in the end things settled down in the best way.
“My family and I grew up in an old house. After all my siblings grew up and we left, my parents built another house, and the old one remained empty. Hearing them talk about its fate, in a flash I it occurred to us that we are going to move into it. Bianca’s decision also made her happy,” says Sebastian
In addition to the daily chores, which seem to never end at home, Sebastian and Bianca also have a channel Youtube, on which they share experiences from their peaceful life, with gardening, mornings in the garden and sunsets that color their kitchen in gold.
We continue to talk with Sebastian Badicel about life with Bianca, in the restored old house of his family, about community, revelations and new habits.
About you
My name is Sebastian Badicel, I am a content creator and the Romanian peasant behind the concept that I brought to the internet world, namely “Viata Veche Cu Oameni Noi” both on YouTube and on Instagram people can find our story and follow us In continuation.
I am 24 years old and I married my wife, Bianca, at the age of 21, when she and I were both. We are the same age, we went to high school together, that’s where we met. After that our life started beautifully together, until now.
Both Bianca and I come from rural families, growing up with animals and doing household chores. Our parents are simple people who knew how to offer us the most valuable thing you can give a child, EDUCATION. From the age of 14, our roads took us out of the village and took us to Babylon, as we like to call it, that is, to the city.
How was life in the city
Life in the city was grey. I liked that… I don’t know. I don’t know if I ever liked it. Then I perceived it as a normality, I didn’t see any other option to live. When you breathe, you don’t think about whether you like the air or not. And annoyingly, it annoyed me that it was grey, lifeless. Yes, a life without life, that was life in the city.
The decision to leave the city for the village
After high school, I attended college, me in landscaping and my wife in restoration, then we found jobs and our life entered the classic rhythm of the city. A life “like on wheels”, figuratively or not. We had become some robots who made sacrifices and compromises just for the sake of keeping us in the “row of the world” in which you have to have, do, be. Until the day I died. We both exhausted ourselves in a terrible way, from which we seemed to find no escape. And I said stop and that I don’t want to live like this anymore.
In us there is always a longing for living in the country.
And probably that’s why I had the “courage” to click, if I can say so. Because then was also the period when we started to spend every minute of free time or vacation only with our parents in the country.
After that we thought, we still thought and made the big decision that, that’s it. We are moving to Heaven.
How did you find the house?
After the big decision, the search began and it took some time. And I still haven’t found it. Angry, just a little, we still visit our people. And one day, coming to my parents, I heard them talking about the old house that remained uninhabited.
To give you a little context, my family and I grew up in an old house. After all my siblings grew up and left, my parents built another house, and the old one remained empty.
Hearing them talk about its fate, it suddenly occurred to me that we were going to move into it as we had not found any house that would meet our requirements. And so it was. My sister Bianca also made the decision, then we started to renovate our future house, respectively our parents’ house.
So, rather, I would say that she found us.
The first days in life in the country
It was thrilling, with lots and lots, as grandma says. It was really challenging.
We wanted to give up several times, but each time we remembered why we chose to leave the city and the pain passed. The hardest thing was to get used to the old lifestyle in the city, where everything came automatically. The rest went very well, the accommodation, we having experience in the country in the past.
How to see, with adult eyes, life in the country. And how it was, in reality
Even though we grew up to the age of 14 in the country, our minds and we completely matured in the city and we could no longer identify much with the past, being a strong contrast. And not that we didn’t want to, but that’s how life can make you feel and be. That’s why the saying “He forgot where he left from” is true. Because you really forget.
But, from our few remaining memories, we saw living in the country as a treasure, as a Heaven. When we got there, the reality was like the place itself and all that surrounds us is Heaven, down to the people. The people and especially the youth have degraded in terms of the sanctity of the village man. Who, just looking at him, made you want to kiss his hand.
But we have many elderly neighbors and this makes Heaven to have continuity in all things.
The happiest in village life
In the first phase it was me, but now we both know how blessed we are.
Your life now
Our life is colorful now, because I said I don’t like gray. Now there is an explosion of color and diversity, things that you don’t have enough time to do. And you wish you could do them, but you don’t have time.
We like working in the garden, walking in nature and creating content for social media. I saw many people inspired by us and who thanked us for giving them courage and that fulfills us.
We love the mornings in the porch and the sunsets that flood our kitchen with gold. We love watching our flowers and chickens grow.
New habits
Meditation or Prayer better said. It’s a habit that has taken root in our hearts since we moved to the country. Because you cannot have so much beauty and abundance around you and not be grateful and grateful to Someone, for them.
What do you miss, if anything, from life in the city
Maybe sometimes in times of crisis, we lack financial security. But this is a trap that many fall into after making such choices and returning to their previous life. Somehow, this problem in reality is not as serious as we think it is and if we have patience and the strength to manage it correctly, we will win.
Professionally, where is better?
In the country, I think you no longer have a professional perspective. The “peasant profession” takes up almost all of your time, and if you want a part of your daily life and talents, which you use in the household, to be capitalized, you can. But there is no place to think about professions.
The main disadvantages of living in the village
There are shortcomings everywhere, if we were to compare with other parts, and there are many in the village. But the biggest gain is that you learn to be grateful for a little. Not that you can’t afford it, but that you don’t need it.
How hard is the maintenance of a house
Likewise, if we compare it with an apartment or a house in the city, it’s difficult, but if we don’t compare, it’s something normal. I think someone who is hardworking wouldn’t complain about that.
The revelations of country life
Life is more than having. Because what will it profit a man to gain the world if he loses his soul. Not?
The community
Life in a community is soothing and you feel safe. It’s like in a big family. The neighbors know everything about you and that’s not bad. Because, although some gossip, they will be there to help. And it’s a great feeling.
How do you contribute to the good of the community?
By bringing new and relevant ways of development, taking care not to denigrate people or break from the sanctity of the village and nature.
Advice for townspeople who want to become villagers
First of all, to analyze and realize if it is a radical decision and not just something of the moment. Moving to the country must be like a rebirth.
You, the one from the old life in the city, die, and you are born in the bosom of the village. Then the village will raise you and take care that you learn everything necessary to be happy. If we come to live in the country as learned and know-it-alls, in no time we will fall into a horrible depression. Why? Because we will look at all the things in life in the country through the glasses of the city and they will never satisfy our needs and conceptions about life. That’s why I say that we have to be like babies, who don’t know anything, and who will grow up there, in the village.
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