Mar 16, 2006 00:50
The beauty in the world nobody sees
My mom and I are very alike. My mom brought up something to me today that I am very interested in and have been for a pretty long time. My mom and uncle want to get a plot of land somewhere in Arizona. Somewhere that is away from any type of human made thing. There are no street names, no buildings, no septic systems, no electricity, no running water.... nothing exept for pure land and pure beauty.
My mom and I got into talking. She said something to me that meant more to me than anything in the world. Now I know exactly why I feel the way I do, I think I inherited it through my mom.
She said, "People who love money will never truely love the world. People who love extravagant 5 star hotels and resorts dont truely care about the world they live in. I want to move to a place and vacation in a place where I just see nothing for miles. I want to see the beauty in the world that God has made. Give me a backpack and a tent and I would stay out in the middle of no where forever. I hate this garbage world that we live in. I want to be away from it. The things that people think are wonderful are things made by people. No true beauty will ever come out in what people have made, the only beauty in the world is in the things that God made naturally."
Now I dont really believe in the same "God" I suppose - I believe in a spirit or some type of "God" of some sort - I just dont know who or what it is - I just know I didnt pop out of thin air and neither did any of this. But I completely agree.
People have become so distant from reality since they began to fall in love with themselves and the things they made.
The Leaning Tower of Piza can fall on its side and break apart - its a material building - it can be rebuilt and it was made by the hands of a human being. It has no true natural substance to it. It may be beautiful to look at - but to us - nothing is more beautiful than the fact that you can go to a place where you hear nothing but birds in the sky and you see nothing but the earth around you for hundreds of miles - no telephone or electrical poles - no sign of life except for the animals that may live around and yourself - and that is where I want to be.
I want my family to get this land so that we can be away from the disgusting materialistic garbage people in this world fell in love with. I never found anything glamorizing or even eye opening about watching the Oscars or some crappy awards show on TV - I never found myself caring about which celebrity is doing what - I can give a shit about shopping and clothing and fashion - i can give a shit about laguna beach - i can give two shits about plastic surgery and everything else this society has put out for the general public to believe as being needed and wonderful.
I could live without a hair dryer and I wouldnt care.
I could live without a television and I wouldnt care.
I could live without a car and I wouldnt care.
I could live without electricity and I wouldnt care.
Because I dont NEED any of these things. If I lived off of the land - and I lived the way my ancestors did thousands of years ago - Id be content. Its hard work - but I find true beauty in the WORLD around me - like I have said before - Just by walking in the grass with my shoes off - walking in the puddles during a rain storm - looking at the trees move back and forth in the wind - and watch the squirrels run back and forth around eachother without a care in the world.
I could live without all of these material things and live with all of the things nature intended me to without a second thought. I think we have all lost balance with ourselves. No wonder why people are committing suicide - depressed - creating wars - and even loving material things that truely arent something we should be appreciating.
Once we distance ourself from our natural state of being - we begin to not care about global warming and the way we destroy this beautiful Earth with live on.
If I was able to live naturally - I would be content. And I hope that my children get to live the life I always wished I could live forever.