In the Mind of Madness

Me and dad went camping last Friday. It was great…a great way to connect with each other and nature. Aside from the full-body mask of bug bites, it was awesome!

We don’t use tents or anything modern aside from the sleeping bags and pillows…just very old-fashioned ways of doing things. That’s what my family is notorious for and I love every minute of it. I hate pansies who have to have a tent or camper or whatever.

While I was there next to the stream, I thought of how perfect everything was….how the omission of every ounce of technology felt so right. I think it was more unsettling to come home where there’s electricity, phones, etc. I honestly felt like an alien when I came home…that with all this modernization that we have today we are infecting ourselves with so many needless things. I would be quite content living without electricity, without running water, without all of that!

I am the type of person who cannot comprehend how anyone needs more than 3 pairs of shoes, more than a couple pairs of pants and shirts, etc. I certainly cannot comprehend how anyone needs more than one phone, one house, one vehicle, etc. And cell phones and iPods and those kind of things? Complete garbage in my book. Don’t need them…

Ok…can you tell how utterly old fashioned I am? How old would you guess I am? 60 or older? Nope…try 30 years old. Yup…I never lived with anything expensive. I think the most expensive thing I ever bought was maybe $40. To me that’s a lot of money. Yes, I’m extremely poor. And how did I get this computer? It was given to me FREE.

I don’t believe in credit cards or anything like that, either. If it were up to me we’d go back to horses and buggies and trading and bartering.