It’s quite miserable being outside in the wet cold, with a sore throat, chopping the wood I need to do every morning so as to have enough of it to keep the wood stove heating all the radiators in the house, so we all stay warm.
But the little voice on the side, that comes out every morning to watch me, of her own free will, with her blonde hair and blue eyes that says:
“You missed!” Gleefully with every axe strike that doesn’t immediately produce a new chunk of wood, makes it exhilarating instead.
And today, when I broke off a partially chopped piece by hand, I even got:
“Daddy! Your job, you did it!”
And having the 5, 4 and 2 year old just decide to get dressed up and go play together in the forest is also something that counters the sensation of dreadful dystopia that most of the world is engulfed by, especially in the cities.
Which is why I suggest you get married, get rural, (not necessarily in that order, as city girls don’t adapt well to the harsh reality of farm life), make a load of children and connect with like minded people in real life first and foremost, but online too. And always beware the fake “homesteaders” that have 4 hours a day to make videos of how they live “off grid”.
Anyone actually living off grid doesn’t have the time to do that.
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It’s quite miserable being outside in the wet cold, with a sore throat, chopping the wood I need to do every morning so as to have enough of it to keep the wood stove heating all the radiators in the house, so we all stay warm.
But the little voice on the side, that comes out every morning to watch me, of her own free will, with her blonde hair and blue eyes that says:
“You missed!” Gleefully with every axe strike that doesn’t immediately produce a new chunk of wood, makes it exhilarating instead.
And today, when I broke off a partially chopped piece by hand, I even got:
“Daddy! Your job, you did it!”
And having the 5, 4 and 2 year old just decide to get dressed up and go play together in the forest is also something that counters the sensation of dreadful dystopia that most of the world is engulfed by, especially in the cities.
Which is why I suggest you get married, get rural, (not necessarily in that order, as city girls don’t adapt well to the harsh reality of farm life), make a load of children and connect with like minded people in real life first and foremost, but online too. And always beware the fake “homesteaders” that have 4 hours a day to make videos of how they live “off grid”.
Anyone actually living off grid doesn’t have the time to do that.
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