The contentment and peace that the beauty and quiet of nature can bring you is every bit as powerful a drug as adrenaline. Best of all,unlike adrenaline,it takes nothing FROM you and can actually make your life longer instead of shorter.
People seem to forget or overlook that there is a price to be paid down the road for all the excitement and energy that adrenaline brings you,but go "there" too often,and you will end up paying the bill.
@sneakypete That's right. That is the lesson from those two Nam vets I was talking about...
They both finally accepted that they were not going to be able to 'transition' back to civilian life.
They both figured out that what changed them also made them incompatible.
9/10ths of the solution was to walk off into the bush (which had become their nature), and the closest thing to that is the hillbilly way.
It's funny that they call it the 'rat race'... shades of a mouse on a wheel... Folks just don't understand the pressure that puts on em, and probably never will.
I was lucky enough to have it in my past - So all I had to do was go back to it.
Wake up to a cold morning, crawl out of your hooch and walk down to a perfectly glass calm lake with mist coming off of it... Grab some water, make a fire, coffee and fish, maybe some eggs if you've got em... Worry about what I am going to eat today... Set some traps, fish a while, hunt a bit... wander on back... fillet and smoke whatever you mean to keep...
And when the place plays out, tear down your sh*t and wander off... to the next 'best place'.
Do every day what most folks do for fun a time or two each year till they hurry on back to the maze.
SMH.
Can't believe I fell for it.
