I exist in a social realm seperated from most people. However ive learned to function in this world seems drastically different from what ive observed in others. The best way I can describe it is that Im like a human animal. Humans ARE animals, of course, but what I mean to express is that I have a certain “Wildness” about me. Im as I naturally occur, mostly untainted by social norms. I happen to spend a lot of time outdoors when my wife is at work and Im left to my own devices.
I am decidedly rather nonsocial. I dont mind people here and there, but I have a social battery that gets very easily drained (ironic considering my gift for languages). Something about the forest and the river refills that battery. Nature is healing and rejuventaing. And I think this is why I do better mentally in warmer, sunnier weather.
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Well, think my dad was like this too, at least a little bit. Would go to his summer house every time he could. He was a teacher so, I guess that is pretty social but, his summer house didn’t have electricity, or phone, or running water. Just a portable radio that ran on a car battery. One tap with unpressured water, that he had to pump from the mountain with a gas powered pump, into a reservoir that was higher than the actual tap. Neighbors were far, far away, you couldn’t see them, hear them.. the neighbors were deers, frogs, squirrels, porcupines, bears and flies, among others..
my mom didn’t like it tho, she complained to me all the time. That made me hate it tbh, but I believe you are absolutely right, we’re animals, and we evolved to live among nature.. not in front of a computer screen.
cheers!
Cheers MacGuyver!
Returning to nature definitely helps. It’s a reminder that there’s something much bigger & older than our human bs. I love looking at trees that are much older than I am and that will outlive me. I love feeling that wild connection you mentioned, when I’m foraging for fruits & berries.
I guess the problem is that we’re hybrid animals, half wild and half domesticated, sort of like a housecat who has lost her survival skills and must stay indoors. At least that’s how I feel, stuck in human society. But if you can break free, or find a comfortable way to live on the fringe, you’ve found the path to a good life. Hope you get there, Pw!