ORIGINAL: savage.308
You all are feeling what the Native Americans once felt on nearly a daily basis. Now that would be living. I can also see how it must have been pretty tough having to give that up and assume a more "civilized" lifestyle. Are we really heading in a better direction? To go back and sit round the campfire with Jeremiah Johnson or Jim Bridger a couple hundred years ago that would be living.
Any one of us can choose where we want to live and if a person truley wants to live like Grizzly Adams than there are plenty of places that exist out west and in Alaska, B.C., where one can persue that life and not ever be found. You choose not to live in the bush because you like your comfort zone and the finer things of life . From day one when we are born we are drilled to get a good education, get a good career, get married and have kids and live happily ever after. Bull Crap !!! I wonder how many would just walk away from that comfort zone, job, retirement, friends and ect to persue it? Well, I did It 8yrs ago and lived in B.C. for four years off the grid. Fetched water and bucked up wood and made a root cellar there out of cedar, it was a hard way of making a living. ..I enjoy having electricity now and I like being comfortable but I really enjoy having running hot running water at my finger tips, but I also like the idea that I live 75 miles to the nearest traffic light too. Geez, sorry didn't mean to ramble on, I guess kabin fever settin in.
Bobby