last year my family didn't have running water or electricity, we used a woodstove to heat the house and cooked things on top of it. we got electricity and i really don't like it. i miss having to read by candle light. now i just put on a movie and turn on the lights. how do i break away? it's really hard to resist using electricity when it's in my house. i'm thinking of moving out, but alaska is pretty damn cold in the winter. so i was thinking of flying to california... but if i'm gonna buy an airplane ticket, i might as well go somewhere i've never been. right? this stupid electricity means i have a computer, a playstation, dvds, movies, a nintendo, lights, a microwave, christmas lights, a cd player, all this CRAP i don't need or want to distract me from thinking and living. i don't have the willpower to resist it.
I feel your pain sister...I've been wrestling with the same thing myself, trying to figure a way to live far, far more simply then I am now...television is making me stupider every day, the ease of everything is making me fat and lazy...I just got back from a week long camp-out too, so I'm feeling this more prominently now...wish I had answers for ya and not just more griping lol
i got the excact same problem.. i found a temponary soloution.. i have build a cottage in a wood about 300 miles from home, where i take out sometimes and live by my self.. out there i feel more alive than home.. i think then i'm done with my education, i try get a life there i can be half a year at home and the other half in the cottage.. best solution for me i think.. maybe you should try..
i dig ya man. i know exactly what you mean. i mean, i've never really lived without electricity, so i don't know really know what it's like without it (except for camping, which i love). but i think growing up always having electricity would probably make it harder for someone to break away from it. i've been trying to spend as little time on the computer as possible, but when i have nothing else to do, i automatically go on. i stopped watching TV monthss ago, and it was one of the best choices i've ever made. i guess i don't really have any suggestions for you, i'm basically just agreeing and rambling. haha...anyways, good luck! peace&love
