Birthday thoughts
This weekend, I am in St-Donat. Today I cut the grass and started to clean up the land. The weather was great but the mosquitoes and black flies were atrocious lol. It was nice to come back to activities I have been doing since my childhood; simple things like mowing lawn and working under the sun to make your little piece of land more pleasant to live in helps grounding you and gives you the time to enjoy being alive.
Hopefully I’ll have many more occasions to do so this year, I need to fill up my bank of this joy of life because the last two years have left my account quite dry... Soon, I’ll be able to act like a good friend that I like to be.
I feel very bless to have got a stable place where changes has been very minimal. I did my first steps in the summer shack (which slowly became a house) that I now own. Yes, the road was build, telephone came and even the electricity but all in all, things haven’t change much here (and probably won’t for hundreds of years). I live at the end of a “dead end” road, with the lake in front of the house and a beaver dam on the other side of the dirt road on the back of the house. Both the lake and the beaver dam are protected by National laws so I don’t see things changing much for many years to come.
It might sounds trivial to many but to have a common ground for so many memories through all the years of your life makes some of the memories so much vivid and the land so much dear to your heart. One thing could have been even better is if I would have been born from a family of agriculture and that I would be working the same land and sweating on the same land as many of my ancestors...
I really thing that with the speed at which things changes and the speed of life nowadays, that we are losing a lot by forgetting our roots. Is it really worth having a loner lifespan if you hide away in work and in virtual activities (computer and console gaming, chat, movies and TV). I know now that I am an old fart since I am missing the time when we use to share our time with friends and family playing cards, watching a bone fire or just sitting in the living room with a soft music on the back round...
I will end this entry by saying how happy I am to have live to see another turn around the sun and to have been able to cherish most of that time.