The Outdoors

# 1 Daily Blog post
The outdoors is both beautiful and harsh presenting positives and negatives. Outdoor living gives you a chance to breathe the crisp fresh air, tall green trees and rare plants, blooming fragranced flowers of multiple colors and water ranging from the clearest blue to the darkest greens. The natural world is peaceful and refreshing providing a sense of physical and spiritual unity and growth. Living outside provides the opportunity explore your surrounding and to be more intelligent and independent, not relying on technology to solve simple or complex task , or a structured building to provide standard place to live. Living outside gives you the chance to move from place to place and see the world in a different way.

You can wake up next to bakeries to the smell of freshly baked breads and pastries. Throughout the day you can snack on all the natural berries and fruits from bushes and trees. For dinner you  catch fresh fish with a fishing rod in lakes and ponds, not genetic or mechanically engineered food that’s sold in stores that we as customers may have no prior knowledge of. At night you set up a place to sleep on the earth’s surface in beautiful gardens with the most soothing and aroma therapeutic flowers.

Aside from the breathtaking awe, when I can’t help but think of living in the outdoors in the 21st century, I think of a rather unfortunate circumstance.  I think of the millions of people losing their homes daily, in this country and around the world forced to live on the streets. Finding ways to survive on a day to day bases living outside can be hard. Important factors like safety and a healthy shelter or places to get a food and fresh water immediately come to mind. In these instances, you grow as an individual, learning how to hunt and gather as our ancestors did, and as some people in the world still do today. You adapt survival skills like the weather, and learning how fish or hunt and cook for yourself, starting a fire that can last through the night, and lastly gaining street smarts to survive the ones you call home each night. Outdoor living is both rough and unpredictable but not impossible by any means. Some find outdoor living to be an unpleasant experience while others find joy and contentment with living outdoors.