Thursday, February 21, 2008

My Life of Leisure in the Wlderness.


My life has always been well planned with goals in mind and a schedule to meet until one day when I decided to follow my heart and live a life of leisure in the wilderness. I desired to live my life the way I wanted so I gave up my well paying job and secluded myself from the life I had been living. I could only think of Jack London's novels and imagined myself living in some of those situations and wondering how I would handle them.
I took my savings and gave it to OXFAM to fight hunger. What did I need money for. I wanted to live in the wilderness and live off the land. I just love the outdoor living without the interferences of commercial living. The thought of living in the wilderness fascinates me because there's never a plan or schedule to meet. You live one day at a time dealing with things as they happen and never knowing from one moment to the next what might happen next. Talk about living life in the purest form and enjoying all the signs of nature such as rivers flowing, leaves blowing, animals roaming, birds singing, and expecially meeting the challenge of living off the land to survive.
My motivation in taking this journey across the country is because I wanted to follow my dream. I wanted to meet the challenge of roaming freely, living off the land and simply doing what I wanted. I want to live my life without being influenced by society. I no longer wanted to live the hectic lifestyle that I was so used to living. I will fish and hunt for food, take long hikes, set up shelter and build what I need from whatever I find in nature.
Leisure in my life is crucial to get to know myself and to learn about my surroundings. In doing this, it gives me the opportunity to explore diversity in my world. Living my life like this will allow me the leisure that so often gets crowded out in everyday hectic lives.