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Brother, I’ve thought long and hard about getting out and eschewing consumerism as a whole. I’ll tell you this much, if you want to do it, you’d better have the right mindset, and the right skill set.
Firstly, if you wanna do this because your life is fucked up or you hate your job, don’t. Running from your problems doesn’t solve em, it only makes em hurt more when you go to dig them back up. Fight a little harder to change careers or places you live or the people you hang out with.
If it’s political, there’s still plenty of causes to help or communes to join. People laugh, but those kinds of folks have really been changing minds, and in twenty years or so, most everyone will have a heart for gods creation, mostly because some hippy had been tellin them to most of their lives.
If you want to immerse yourself in the raw and unmanocured kind of life the wild offers, go on a trip for a week or two. I like it a lot.
But, I also like hospitals. I like being able to buy a nice steak and flirt with the waitress. I like ice cream. I like my friends and family. Sometimes, some new music comes out that really jives with me. I like “society”. I just take what I like from it, and don’t take what I don’t like.
Give going into the wild a shot if you like. All we really have is the time we have left to live, so we should think hard about how to spend it well. If it would make you happy, and speak to you in ways you can’t articulate, go ahead. If you’re just mad and want to be left alone, there’s something else going on, and being lonesome will only make it worse.
