>>1900057Fucking this, so much this.
I spent most of my early years surrounded by a junkyard full of stuff my dad spent his life hoarding and I constantly struggled with the payments I had to make to keep a giant pile of rusting shit there for me to look out the window at every day, it was depressing and I was rapidly loosing any interest in the world around me as I felt I would just be destined for the same shit, a legacy I wanted no part of but saw nothing else.
Then the county started shitting down our necks and we bought some acreage a few states over, and I've since built a greenhouse, poured piers for a cabin foundation, taken up archery, and am going to be learning how to handmilk and other bits of animal husbandry from some neighbors I met at the laundromat.
I can't speak for everyone but I can say with absolute certainty the moment I stepped away from monthly bills that needed my attention for my continued existence and into a situation where I don't even have an electric bill because I have to make it myself gave me purpose in life, it gave these legs of mine drive and passion for things people in cities watch documentaries about before going to bed and forgetting about the world outside their four walls the very next day.
