I spent a lot of time thinking recently...thinking about life, what it means, and what we fill it with. Mostly just slaving to earn paper which we spend on things that allow us to keep slaving...or some trivial doodads to occupy our scant free time. So many of us are so miserable...and whenever we try to break free, so many out there are all too eager to drag us back down. Not to mention our many little addictions and habits. Whatever the case, I've had enough. Enough of the chains and prisons of my own construct. So I'm letting it all go, and I'm going. But not right now. I'm going to spend the next five years cutting the strings...dropping habits and addictions, learning to live more cheaply and freely off this land of ours. So half a decade from now, I'll be ready. I'll have plenty of that paper stuff saved up and stored away just in case, and I'll be on the road. It will be amid the first warm days of 2012 that I leave...I enjoy that it will be during the 'Harmonic Convergence' that I'll be doing this. Now, I don't plan on doing it alone. I hope to see many come with me...friends both new and old are welcome to drop the prison sentences of the present to come along with me when that time comes. I hope that there will be a glorious hippy caravan departing that morning...but it may well just be this lone gypsy and the road. Either way, I'm going. I'll be keeping people updated...times, dates, who is coming, where I may go, etc...I'll be setting up a site of my journal leading up to it, too. I welcome anyone who wants to join me. It may not be easy...or even succesful. Hell, it won't be easy...and it probably won't be succesful. But it will be liberating...fun...freeing...new...inspiring...it will be us reaching for a dream and riding it as far as it will take us. I don't know where we'll end up, how we'll get there, or if we'll even return... But I know it will be a dream come true. I hope to see you all there, or along the way...drop me a line.
Hello! Sounds like you have a good plan to leading a simple and peaceful life. I was wondering why you are going to wait 5 years. (you might have second thoughts if you wait that long.) You said you are not sure were you will go – I suggest Vancouver Island because there is an abundance of wild food. (fish, mushrooms, berries) I could go down to the creek right now – dig up some skunk cabbage and make flour. (but its raining) Cheers and safe journays.
he's waiting for 2012 ! sounds like something i would be interested in doing! i wish you the best of luck and i hope you have an amazing journey.. dont give up!
I'm waiting for a couple reasons...one, not so important, is to save up some supplies, money, experience, etc for the trip. It will be a long one. But more importantly is because I do enjoy the life I have now...I just know my dream is this Journey. So I want to spend these five years enjoying the life I have now as it is. ...and lastly, for this Journey I want to cut all the strings, habits, addictions, etc. I would love to say I'm strong enough to do that right now, but I'm not. Five years, however, is more than enough time to sever these shackles. ...and thank you for the suggestion, I may just end up there before it's over.
Thank you! I hadn't even realized the date until a bit after I decided on all this...but yes, we will be leaving upon the first warm days of 2012, the true Harmonic Convergence. I hope it bodes well, and you're welcome to come along
