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How do I learn to enjoy the outdoors?
I'm not one of those city people who have never seen a cow irl. I spent all my childhood summers in rural backcountry, in the nature, seeing the wild, and I just don't see what part of it is supposed to be enjoyable. I don't hunt, I don't like berries or know that many mushrooms so foraging isn't a full-time thing, I don't enjoy woodworking, and I can't see myself farming or keeping livestock.
Unfortunately, my wife wants to move there, into the rural nowhere. She hates living in the city as much as I hate living in the assfuck middle of nowhere, and we both deeply hate suburbs. So there's no option available where one or both of us isn't miserable, and after four years of living in the city, she still hates it, so it's my turn to give her idea of "the good life" a try.
My wife keeps talking about having a small hut in the middle of absolutely nowhere with solar panels on top, growing/foraging/hunting our own food, going completely off-grid and never seeing another person ever again.
Cities are busy, vibrant, flickering, changing, there's always something new to look at. Trees are just trees. The only way that trees will stop being trees is by dying and rotting. Everything in the wild is the exactly same every day, never changing, only slowly rotting and dying. No part of being stuck in one place for the rest of my life to rot and die feels appealing to me.
I don't delight in nature. If you've seen one tree, you've seen them all. In cities there's cars, buildings and people, each one slightly different than the last, always changing and something new happening. The only wildlife I really enjoy watching are jackdaws, which prefer cities as much as I do. The only thing I can think of to do in the middle of nowhere is to wait until I get to go home. I don't know what else I would do if I was stuck there permanently, other than wait for death.
So how do I learn to enjoy the backwoods?
