I’ve told you about the fact that I live in the country, today I want to tell you why I live in the country and why I like living in the country.
Because I do.
Living in the country is a real pleasure and it’s something that I’ve done for quite a few years. I grew up in the city as a kid but you wouldn’t get me back there again.
There’s just so much to life in the country that you just can’t find living in a city. One example for you. I love cycling and do it heaps of it out here in the country. It helps keep me fit and that’s important and I definitely need to keep fit, much fitter in fact. And it gets me into some beautiful outdoors locations and scenery.
Around me theres so much to cycle past each day. Fields with cows, sheep, alpacas and goats. Horses too, though I dont like horses all that much. But I love cows and sheep. I have my own cows which I’ve told you about, each with its own calf, and I love them.
There’s so many advantages to living out here and cows and calves and chickens at my place is just one of them. It’s nature and I love nature, and to see it.
Now it’s near the end of summer and it’s been so hot. There’s been some really hot weather and it’s getting on top of me, I don’t like the heat at all. Of course it would still be hot if I lived in the city but here it’s still better, to me. I see nature, I see the seasons come and go and I see things like the grass start to grow longer and stop and the leaves fall off the trees and regrow again.
I see the leaves of the trees turn all different colors, there’s so many wonderful colors. I see the new trees growing beneath the old ones when the seeds germinate. I see the old and the young, I see the new and the not so new and I see regeneration.
Nature cycles like I like to cycle, and I love to watch it all happening right through the year.
Maybe if I lived in a city I’d have a little garden, maybe no garden. And I might not even have a tree at all. Maybe all I’d have is some solid concrete in my back yard and no more, except a BBQ perhaps, I love a good BBQ.
And unlike here I probably wouldn’t get to see the seasons change like I do now all year long.
It’s so sterile in the city and I spent a large part of my life in the city so I’ve been there. Of course it’s just me that thinks it’s sterile, not everyone.
Of course all my family lives in the city and they love it. My brother is a doctor and hes single, so he likes the single life of the city. Theres things to do there that he’s into a lot, and it suits him. But the city is not for me, suffice to say.
I’ve lived in the city for a long time , I grew up there and I really feel now like I’ve wasted so many years there. Now of course it’s true that I didn’t waste them. I had my time and I lived my life but it feels like wasted time. I should ask my brother if he’d like to live in the country, it would be nice if he lived nearby, but I think it’s unlikely. If I suggested it to him I doubt that he’d move here. (more…)