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I have a simply life. I work very hard to have a simple life. I would like to work harder to make my life simpler. Sound like contradictions?
Maybe a better way to describe my life is, self sufficient. If I can do something myself, that’s all the more reason to do it. Usually it involves a monetary savings, and that’s nice too. The greatest reward is in not being dependent on someone else to provide for me.
I don’t know what came first, my desire to live in remote areas, or my desire to be self sustaining. I lived in suburbia; I know the pros and cons. When I moved a little further out of town, I had to do more for myself. I could have seen this either as a positive or a negative. My personality liked the self sustaining lifestyle. I never saw suburban life as a place with enough positives to move back.
I also went to college. I chose electives that were mostly humanities. I love looking at the “Why?” of everything. I question the answers society so quickly dishes out. There is so much we American’s were raised with as being fact; we don’t even ask the question.
The legend of the ham. I’ll give a quick synopsis for those who haven’t heard it. The story is of a family dinner where the mother is teaching her teenage daughter about cooking the ham. The mother said, “First you cut the ends off the ham”. The girl asked, “Why do you cut the ends off?” The mother, not knowing, asked her mother, why the ends are to be cut off the ham. Grandmother replies, “Because I didn’t have a pan big enough”. This story has been altered many times; I don’t know which one is the original, but you get the idea.
This methodology has half irritated me, and half fascinated me. Especially when I find that I myself have been cutting the ends off the proverbial ham.
Walk with me through this blog, asking the questions that are seldom acknowledged. Keep an open mind, and you may find what makes you the individual that you are.
Peace!
