I Would Like to Live Off the Grid
I have experienced both.
Born in a city, a suburban area then moved north to a small town that borders another country.
That became my home town.
I have had the advantage to go back to my home town and the city where my parents came from.
I have traveled back to the past and to the country next door. Back when border control was less intense and policing was not everywhere.
Have we become a policing nation?
I wonder that sometimes.
I live in the US and our nation has become so political, we are a policing nation.
I am not complaining, not in the least. In fact I am grateful. I am truly grateful for the life that I do have.
I am fortunate enough to have a warm bed to sleep in and a roof over my head (because I have a landlady who is graciously understanding of my situation). I have a good job and a car that I own all on my own. I have no bank loans, car loans or land taxes because I own no land, yet I wish to live off the grid.
I have seen the life of homelessness and am grateful enough to not having to live that again.
Because I know what it is like to not have a place to call home.
I had the pleasurable experience to venture myself on a road trip across the country and I got to see the other side.
(The Midwest and a bit of the south because I am a northern gal)
It was an experience that changed my life.
It drove me to want to see more.
Its given me drive and ambition because I don't want to stay stuck here forever!
I was sheltered for a long time.
Lost in a world I felt trapped in.
So I started to spread my wings over the last ten years. When I ventured out into the world but that was only in the US.
I came to learn that there is so much more out there going on in the rest of the world, that does matter to me.
I want to see what is really going on in the other side of the world.
I want to see it for myself, and not told it by others and how to understand it.
I want to experience it.
I see life through my own lenses and I have experienced my own in this journey that I call life.
My eyes are wide opened, I am an awakened spirit and I want to see a world beyond my views, from what I hear or read or see.
I want to feel it, embrace it and live in those moments.
I desire to explore, to venture and to experience things I haven't yet had a chance too.
I want to live and cherish every experience that I have in this life.
If there is a wall, I want to see beyond that.
I want to experience different cultures.
I live in the US and I live in a small town that was once the home of an Alcoa plant and a General Motors plant too. Those two plants were part of our economic decline over the last 20 years, in the US alone.
I am right on the border of the Canada.
Jobs went overseas and drugs came in.
People moved away and friend drifted off.
Now Bitcoin companies are moving in and it all started with the chip.
In your debit card.
A new technological industrial revolution is on the rise from a virtual cyborg world to AI and RFDI chips and the all seeing eye of "Okay google" and "Alexa" too.
I live in an impoverished small town where we drank the water because we thought it was safe. Even though we were surrounded by industrial plants that became the economic boom of the 80's and 90's. Now it looks like a wasteland. Its sad really, when you see it from my perspective. We all have our own and we see things as we want too, We thought it was safe to drink the water until we got sick from it and watched a loved one die and suffer from cancer.
Nearly 8 percent of our towns population suffered from cancer in the late 90's into the next century.
Now we find a neighbor or co-worker friend or family member who suffers from some kind of ailment, whether it is placebo like or psychosomatic illness diagnosis or undetermined ailment.
Eight out of ten people I know or have known has either died or suffered from ailments that consume a life. One way or another.
Yet, I don't want those ailments to stop me from living.
I am here and I live my life for a reason, even if it seems unknown to me. Unknown to others too.
Sometimes as I sit here and continue to watch what is going on in this country with its politics and bureaucrats and such. it numbs me to the core, in all honestly.
I so want to escape from it all.
To experience life off the grid, in the middle of nature, surrounded by a lake or waterfront. With nothing but calmness in front of me, as I write on the waterfront.
Listening to the sound of nature and basking in its peace and serenity.
When you are used to the hustle and bustle of suburban and city life, you like to relish in the moments as if the world was miles away.
Maybe I need a cultural shock to my nature.
I am getting restless, tired of living in my comfort zone.
I want to move on. I feel like I have been trapped here long enough.
If I had to chose between city life or country life I would say, country life.
But, I am just a small town gal who hasn't yet lived the city life, I was just born into it.
Ready to explore other parts of the world.
this town I live in is getting too small for me.
Born in a city, a suburban area then moved north to a small town that borders another country.
That became my home town.
I have had the advantage to go back to my home town and the city where my parents came from.
I have traveled back to the past and to the country next door. Back when border control was less intense and policing was not everywhere.
Have we become a policing nation?
I wonder that sometimes.
I live in the US and our nation has become so political, we are a policing nation.
I am not complaining, not in the least. In fact I am grateful. I am truly grateful for the life that I do have.
I am fortunate enough to have a warm bed to sleep in and a roof over my head (because I have a landlady who is graciously understanding of my situation). I have a good job and a car that I own all on my own. I have no bank loans, car loans or land taxes because I own no land, yet I wish to live off the grid.
I have seen the life of homelessness and am grateful enough to not having to live that again.
Because I know what it is like to not have a place to call home.
I had the pleasurable experience to venture myself on a road trip across the country and I got to see the other side.
(The Midwest and a bit of the south because I am a northern gal)
It was an experience that changed my life.
It drove me to want to see more.
Its given me drive and ambition because I don't want to stay stuck here forever!
I was sheltered for a long time.
Lost in a world I felt trapped in.
So I started to spread my wings over the last ten years. When I ventured out into the world but that was only in the US.
I came to learn that there is so much more out there going on in the rest of the world, that does matter to me.
I want to see what is really going on in the other side of the world.
I want to see it for myself, and not told it by others and how to understand it.
I want to experience it.
I see life through my own lenses and I have experienced my own in this journey that I call life.
My eyes are wide opened, I am an awakened spirit and I want to see a world beyond my views, from what I hear or read or see.
I want to feel it, embrace it and live in those moments.
I desire to explore, to venture and to experience things I haven't yet had a chance too.
I want to live and cherish every experience that I have in this life.
If there is a wall, I want to see beyond that.
I want to experience different cultures.
I live in the US and I live in a small town that was once the home of an Alcoa plant and a General Motors plant too. Those two plants were part of our economic decline over the last 20 years, in the US alone.
I am right on the border of the Canada.
Jobs went overseas and drugs came in.
People moved away and friend drifted off.
Now Bitcoin companies are moving in and it all started with the chip.
In your debit card.
A new technological industrial revolution is on the rise from a virtual cyborg world to AI and RFDI chips and the all seeing eye of "Okay google" and "Alexa" too.
I live in an impoverished small town where we drank the water because we thought it was safe. Even though we were surrounded by industrial plants that became the economic boom of the 80's and 90's. Now it looks like a wasteland. Its sad really, when you see it from my perspective. We all have our own and we see things as we want too, We thought it was safe to drink the water until we got sick from it and watched a loved one die and suffer from cancer.
Nearly 8 percent of our towns population suffered from cancer in the late 90's into the next century.
Now we find a neighbor or co-worker friend or family member who suffers from some kind of ailment, whether it is placebo like or psychosomatic illness diagnosis or undetermined ailment.
Eight out of ten people I know or have known has either died or suffered from ailments that consume a life. One way or another.
Yet, I don't want those ailments to stop me from living.
I am here and I live my life for a reason, even if it seems unknown to me. Unknown to others too.
Sometimes as I sit here and continue to watch what is going on in this country with its politics and bureaucrats and such. it numbs me to the core, in all honestly.
I so want to escape from it all.
To experience life off the grid, in the middle of nature, surrounded by a lake or waterfront. With nothing but calmness in front of me, as I write on the waterfront.
Listening to the sound of nature and basking in its peace and serenity.
When you are used to the hustle and bustle of suburban and city life, you like to relish in the moments as if the world was miles away.
Maybe I need a cultural shock to my nature.
I am getting restless, tired of living in my comfort zone.
I want to move on. I feel like I have been trapped here long enough.
If I had to chose between city life or country life I would say, country life.
But, I am just a small town gal who hasn't yet lived the city life, I was just born into it.
Ready to explore other parts of the world.
this town I live in is getting too small for me.
