Living free and for others without a home

I don’t know about that. I am a little bit older than most that have posted so far and I feel the same way. I think many people feel like this and it does not matter if you are 18 or 60 (no, I am not 60 but I have met people who are and feel like we do). Most of us go threw the motions of living life but are not truly alive.

Just packing up and heading out into the world has weighed heavily on my mind lately. I even wet so far as to go to sporting goods stores and figure out how much it would cost to buy supplies.

If you search threw this thread you will find even more people who feel the same way. Yet, they never take that step. I don’t know what stops us.

 

fear is what stops us!!!




but,,

yeah, i feel the same way!!! about what everybody said! i just wann do something with my life that's cool and interesting before i get old and have too many responsiblities.

i used to feel this way when i first grad. from high school, but then i decided to go to college so i could at least be able to get a 'real' job in the future, but it was more to please my family.

now, almost 4 years later, i am graduating with a major that doesn't guarantee me a job, the job market sucks in general, and i'm still not happY!
when will i learn!?

i really do want to travel and do some outrageous fun stuff, sow my 'wild oats' and i do have a lot of them.
i love nature i would definitely be down with trying out a commune for a bit. it would sure beat the suburbs!!

 

come to puerto rico . something we have been doing latley is alot of fishing and giving the fresh fish we dont need to needy families.

 

india is great, and really cheap, many westerners come here to escape the daily slavery attached to salary blabla, there are both old and young freaks living on little

 

I walked out of my good paying capitalist job 5 years ago to join an intentional community and I don't regret it one bit.
Look at ic.org and thefec.org for communities to visit.
You could set up visits in secession, stay at one community long enough to build up a small amount of money to be able to travel to the next community. Once you are in with communities, you will be able to find other communities. We're all connected, and there is a lot of moving back and forth.
Some places to start- in missouri, dancing rabbit, east wind and sandhill. Through these communities you could find other communities as well as possibly help a new community get on its feet. In Virginia, Acorn community and Twin Oaks, a visit to either can connect you with other local and semi local community options. There is also Emma Goldman's in Seattle.
Just write or email and you could plan a trek, call yourself an intern if you don't want to settle down just yet.

 

I went out to the CO nationals with this brother who thought like this. His final destination in Augest is HI. He's working on a farm community. He only has to work 2 hours a day, gets paid for it, and lives there for free. I have no info other than what he told me, but i'm sure you can do a google search on HI farms or something.

 

I actually tried to join the peace corps. but they only want college students and people with ten years experience in certain fields (i.e. medical/agricultural/etc). I agree though, it's too "big" and there's too much red tape.

 

after half heartedly reading this thread,,,,, i can say this,,,,

check out www.ic.org there are oodles of opportunities out here , no matter where you are,,, with a wide variety of options etc etc....

second check some of these places out before you head out to where ever in the world to do your thing,,, many like to talk n speak of it but when it comes down to it.... cant hack it.... better to see if you can handle what you think you can before cuttin all ties to whatever you have....


last ,,, listen to self and trust self above anyone else,,,, menaing you be responsible,,, tou take the steps,,, you listen to what your guts tell you cuz aint noone gonna do it for you....

 

heyhey
yup i feel the same way; and i'm in florida too!
its helped me to get rid of most of my possessions, travel; try to stay sane...

 

So I scanned thru the posts and I noticed too how many feel the desire to just "wander" and "experience" life. My feelings on this will probably buck against the general feeling of the rest of the forum, but I speak from experience. When I was a fresh college graduate in 1995, facing a lack of good jobs for my recently acquired skills, I decided to give away my belongings and trek across the country to find "experience". Here's what I found: 1. responsibility freaks many of us out 2. wandering is fun and teaches you much about yourself and others, but creating a change in this life is very difficult to do without a homebase. 3. eating out of dumpsters gets really old after a short while. I am now back home in Florida, back in college to get my teaching degree and raising children of my own who are making a change in this world. We rake the old lady's yard because it makes a difference to HER. We volunteer at the local SPCA because it makes a difference to THEM. We read books to children and teach adults how to read because it makes a HUGE difference to their lives. I've learned that the wanderlust I experienced came from a place of confusion, apathy and hypocrisy. I didn't want to change the world, I just simply wanted out of the world I was in without making any serious changes that would require hard work. Running across country seems a whole lot easier than waking up at seven am to go wash dishes at a hospital. It sure is a whole lot more romantic and adventurous. Everyone should travel and experience the world around them, but to say you are doing so in order to create a positive change is just BS. They don't hand out awards for helping the old lady down the street with her yardwork, but you shouldn't really need an award that isn't what its about. Positive change begins very very close to home. Good luck to everyone who is in this place of uncertainty, hopelessness and confusion. We've all got it in us to make huge changes in the smallest of ways. We just have to DO IT.

 

I worked and got to travel all over the world sometimes remote places to help people and learn their ways in the American Red cross as a disaster relief worker. Get to meet all sorts of friendly people and they paid me to go places and help people. Not a bad kick for a while.

 

Can I come? I want to travel the world also. Take me.