Is it normal to want to live in the forest like thoreau and have a family?

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So I am recently reading Walden for the first time and I like what Thoreau has to say. I would love to live that simple and elegant life that relies on nothing other than my own wits and hard work. Also, I think that lifestyle would make me beautiful, as a woman living in nature.
Is it normal to dream about these things? Sometimes I get depressed thinking that we live such polluted lives, but then the unknowns of nature scares me back to the reality of "this is the life I was born into". I also dream of living this nature life with an honest man and one day have children. Is it normal for a woman of today to want this more than a career? Some people would say that's going backwards.

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    I love the idea too. Self-sufficiency seems to take away a lot of the stresses about "what if I lose my job? what if I can't pay the rent? what if I mess up at work?"

    You work hard (which might cure my insomnia) and you get your own reward. It's simple.

    You eat healthily, breathe fresh air, and a walk in the woods is no longer a rare tree (it's every walk). You live with nature and the animals (like Taoists said we used to) rather than outside of it.

    We're too attached to things we think are important and too frightened at being without them to really appreciate that there may be a better existence behind than the one we're in, and the one of our future.

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  • [email protected]
    11 years ago

    I used to live on abandoned railroad tracks for the longest time when I was homeless-but I made sure I was alone up there-

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  • Terence_the_viking
    11 years ago

    Yes.

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  • Shackleford96
    11 years ago

    I'll be your jungle man!

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  • drugsrbadmkay
    11 years ago

    Nature is a dick. Thankfully we have houses and cars and air conditioning and teh interwebs so I never have to experience it.

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  • howaminotmyself
    11 years ago

    I don't think it's weird. I know lots of people who would live in the forest if they could.

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