I want to be free..

I want to be free....
I want to live in a tepee, and walk the world with my family and friends.
I would like to lie and look up at the stars or the dying embers of a fire instead of the tv.
I do not want to see fences, concrete or steel anywhere in world when walking.
I want it to be full of wildlife and diverse in its plants and panoramic views.
I want to meet other families\groups when we wander, in peace and brotherhood.
I want to help make a reed boat and sail it to another land, I want to keep walking with my family and friends untill the day I die, experiencing every wonderful thing that real life gives...

Right now I just dream about it,

Was it my hero Henry who once said "so that when I came to die, I would have known that I had lived"......
(possibly have quoted it wrong, think Henry said it better).....

anyone else have these dreams ?

 

"Cause I have a tatse for free"

That'd all be cool, but just go camping every now and then...

 

freedom is only something you become aware of when looking back on times you have lived. for when you are out and about, you should be enjoying yourself far to much to be able to realise its true freedom you have found. just go have fun, do what ever you feel like doing (within the restraints of the law) and freedom will find you!

love peace and smiles
jx

 

How true....
But right now I just can't seem to find the exit....

 

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" ~HDT

Yeah, I have dreams like you, man. In fact, it is my highest aspiration, my lifelong goal to do just that (as far as is possible...I can't tear down every fence).

 

I have the opportunity because I know what I need to do to do it....
Somehow I just can't....
Is it lack of faith in myself?
Is it love for my family?

When I come to die, will I regret that I did not do it?

Is it just a silly dream that has no basis in reality?

Is it because I am alone?

Love you too

X X X

strawpup

 

hey its a scary and big decision indeed. but you know its not set in stone. go find out what is you want in terms of freedom enjoy yourself the normality you have always known will always be there for you should you want it back. you are right life is so short and regrest are something you should try to avoid, you only live once, there is no rehearsals so do as you feel, and seek the good in everything you do, there is very little that can truely be considered a mistake.

do you have anyone whom could join you on the possible adventures that lay ahead as it takes away that solemn feeling.

love peace and smiles
jx

 

No, but that's a good point...

Maybe that's the way to go about it....Find a travelling companion and just take the road one little step at a time...

Thanks jaycee....

Think you may have just made strawpup very happy...Hope restored, light at the end of the tunnel...

Love you too

X X X

 

hehe listen to jaycee.. that what me and him did.. weve only dsone small adventures so far ... but they keep oiur hears fires alight when all hope begins to fade

Just remember in the end we are all going to die so no matter how you live... as long as you live it doesnt matter. Just enjoy what you have and live for the thrill of life.

 

I cant wait to finish my log cabin. That'll be really cool. I'll a few friends round and we'll play music and listen to music and then My friend will show us the star constellations. It wont be long.

 

strawpuppy,

im exactly where you are right now.. im locked into the grid and im going crazy... im tired of watching new housing tracts go up over farmland and forest... it kills me. im tired of people buying into everything.... and driving all over the place... i love driving too, especially roadtrips, but im so sick of having to drive across town to go grocery shopping... i just want to walk and ride my bike... i want to leave savannah and move to Oregon as soon as possible. i want to work on a farm and enjoy the fruits of my labor, instead of bustingmy ass at eckerds making someone else rich... commercialism is so discouraging and incongruent to a true way of life... i cant even see the stars here because of all the paper mills exhaust... i miss the forest.. i miss the trees... the streams.. breathing clearly and not craving another ciggarette every five minutes... i need to get out of here. this place is smothering me. i want to pack up my car, grab my dog and just head west till i find a better place... life can be great. just not in suburbia


evie

 

Strawpuppy, when I read what you wrote I wanted to cry. I don't mean that in a bad way. You just wrote everything I dream about, what I NEED to do, I need to get out but I can't, I know I need to. I'll lose it if I don't. Just leave with nothing to worry about, no deadlines, no timelimits, just infinite freedom to do whatever you please. Just be happy, run around in the grass, or fall asleep in the sun. I need to do that so bad that I can just feel myself almost dying from the inside because i can't. I obviously can't express this as well as you did, but I think you know what I mean.

 

StrawPuppy may I suggest a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. You'll experience alot of what you are yearning for. Its a great getaway from the crap of civilization. Hiking the AT is a wonderful experience because it gets you away from the bs of life,plus you will meet many wonderful people while on the Trail. The hiker community is a subculture full of awesome people of many ages and walks of life.


check out

www.whiteblaze.net

www.trailjournals.com

for great deals on gear

www.campmor.com

also see

www.nimblewillnomad.com

Enjoy bro!

 

Funny, it seems that I'm in the same situation as quite a few folks here. I'm coming up on the end of my patience for the straight n' narrow lifestyle I've rutted myself in, too. AND, scared of the UNcomfortable UNknown at the same time. But for me it's not so much a question of IF but a question of WHEN....so, Stawpuppy...
Maybe it's just one of those bottoming out things: when you are TRULY fed up with snivilization, you'll head in a different direction. Or, negatively(sp?) , you may just get used to the stuffiness and it'll become harder and HARDER to leap into the wide open?
A)It'll get harder to leave the longer you wait??
B) It's like one of those rubber band things, the longer you let that desire build up the farther you'll go?
Turn On ,Tune In, Drop Out...uh..and THEN WHAT?!

 

I want nothing more, and rather plan to have it, though I do not hate technology itself, I loathe cable TV. I hate many things about society. In the world today if you decide to live a good honest life at best your going to be putting hours twards another mans dream, though it may be somewhat close to yours where is the fullfilment, where is the true freedom, and where is the glory of creation. Specialization is for insects, one must again learn to love what is in one's hands. I have planned for some years now to escape mainstream life, you can see what Im all about on the communal living forum. Especially for ashlan, stawpuppy and when two roads meet I really hope you find the time to check it out for I most truely feel your words, and think I may have some hope to offer. yet if you find yourself to grounded by conveniences I don't blame you

I think freedom exists in the absence of authority, in the absence of reward and punishment, which our competitive society so embraces today. Reward leads to envy which leads to hate. Punishment leads to feelings of oppression which leads to rebellion. "For every Sage of Justice crowned there is a theif born." -Tao Te Ching The perfect system should be controlled by no man yet rely on the natural will of people to do well for their fellow man, which quite frankly is dam near impossible with the complexity of our society today. Many couldn't find the time to piss on you if your head was on fire. This is why this idea may seem quite unprobable, yet in the forging of a truely free community it is nothing short of essencial.

 

Thats my dream!

 

there's alot of work to do to make
it our dream and real at the same time ,
so be true

wild


and


good


there's a together dream walk from the Ocala
rainbow gathering , up the Appalacian Trail , and get to
the national gathering by june .

 

YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUTTA MY MOUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i FEEL THE EXACT SAME WAY!!!!!!!!

 

we all want to be free...

 

yea, you are sooo right, i think thats the way peaple were meant to live, u dont know how bad i wish i couldve been born a thousand years ago, before mankind turned onto the black plague.