history repeating...

[desdemona03]

August 2002: just returned from my 2nd summer at camp, and I was missing it so much. I said that I felt old, so much older than my high school friends. I said I wanted to live a simpler life, out in the country, providing for myself. I said I wanted to "get on" with life. I asked, "who am I

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[doulosxristou]

I think sometimes simplicity isn't so much where you live, but how you live. I guess the same thing goes for "getting on" with one's life. It seems like both those things are maters of a change of perception. But I agree that a change of scenery can really help tweak our perception of ourselves ever so slightly, in ways we may not even notice...I wonder if it would help to go on a series of very long walks, maybe in neighborhoods you're not quite as familiar with?

[desdemona03]

it was actually "how" I live that I want to be simpler. City, subs or country I know don't so much matter, or at least they shouldn't. I should have explained it a bit more clearly... I want to live in the country not because its simple, but so I can own a horse and maybe a couple large dogs, german shepards ^.^

I do agree about the long walks. If the humidity weren't so god aweful I'd do it too. But I guess "getting on" is a "how"... its not like it stands still, its always going, so I can make something of my time or not....

I think the most difficult thing would be to keep thinking that way, of making a habit of "making the best" and "living in the now" and so on.