Monday, August 15, 2005
Every so often I get the desire to move to the South for a few years and live in a small house near a river, with some sort of skilled trade job, and spend my days playing music and reading books and tracing my family history.
But then I wonder whether I'd be able to handle the mainstream separation. Would I spend my time trying to keep up with politics and culture? Would I spend hours online trying to reconnect? How would I handle the possibility of living near and interacting with people with closed minds and narrow points of view? Would I feel the need to speak out against it or would I just play along?
Am I simply drawn to the romance of living an agrarian lifestyle, or do I really want to reconnect with my roots and myself? It's hard to know while I'm still just postulating. I wonder whether I could really handle all that alone time that I sometimes think I want. When I was younger I had a hard time being alone. It made me very antsy and I'd get lost in thought and then more or less freak out cos there would be no one there to balance it out. But I've become more acclimated to spending time alone, and I've almost enjoyed becoming more introverted.
So who knows.
If I don't ever do it, I'm sure I'll write about it some day wishing that I had.
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1 comments:
I truly think you should come to the South and experience it for yourself. You’ll find that “closed minds and narrow points of view” do exist here, but those types of individuals exist everywhere. Diversity is everywhere, including in the South. Perhaps you are somewhat narrow-minded with your thoughts on Southern living and the people here? Just some food for thought…
I find the South interesting because the roots of America exist here, and many of the cities still stand as they did when the United States first began to establish itself. Why would you not want to see where your country first began? I stand by what I said earlier. You should come to the South at some point. I think you’d be surprised by what you find.
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