RE: Off-Grid Living and the Importance of (Enthusiastically!) Embracing Community
yes! i think this balance is such a healthy point of view. we share similar points of view indeed and don't believe the answer is found in full on luddite.
To us, the grid seems fragile and dependent upon certain factors that, in the event of compromise or collapse, could equate to a pretty large amount of personal loss... of health, freedom, even life. To be fully dependent on it is simply not an acceptable way of living for us anymore. Our decision to make plans to move to the woods has a lot LESS to do with us wanting to be weird antisocial mountain hermits and MORE to do with living in a way that ultimately connects and engages us to the world we feel we are slowly missing out on, and disconnecting from the NEED for grid connection.
my soul echoes this so so much! i have that itch to scratch too and it feels so good to do so by actually putting food on the table, empowering ourselves and others, living debt free, knowing and to some extend being able to control our water and energy sources. all of this is truly empowering. best wishes as you move off grid! i'll be happily following your journey :)
Yes spot on! That's exactly what I've noticed about all the small things we've been doing and small changes we've made to a more off grid way of thinking... Just so empowering. And gads it is freaking fun too. I am on the verge of having too many hobbies now though 😂 but perhaps it's time to let go of some old things. It's a constantly evolving and changing dynamic, as I learn new stuff my priorities change. Some of it I admit is a bit scary, selling our condo definitely is, because we planned at first to use as investment property and passive income, but to really push our plans forward it needs to be done! We are trying to keep an open mind as we make our decisions every step of the way.
Thank you so much for commenting. It really resonates with me and I constantly am checking out what you put out there on steemit, just love your scope of knowledge and insight!
Have a great week and again thank you for your kind support.
<3 i hear you! i think sometimes too these kind of changes can "ask for" all of us... it's like an energetic commitment step. as you say it's scary and your goal with the condo was for good purposes, but with your calling you can't have both! that's so interesting to me... the ways our souls set up certain things asking if we will trust the path and go "all in"... i too have given so much to this kind of lifestyle-- there is likely no turning back hahah for better or worse, come hell or high water (and we did have a hundred year flood just last year lol)... but, for reasons you stated in your article above (which i resonate with so much), we know the old system just isn't serving us or 'the people' anymore and we gotta follow that call! all the power to ya! XO glad you're here :)