Me as a child: "I really don't understand why people would move to the woods and isolate themselves from society." Me today: "Oh, I get it..." - ThreadSky

blackazizanansi.bsky.social • 84 days ago

Me as a child: "I really don't understand why people would move to the woods and isolate themselves from society."

Me today: "Oh, I get it..."

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whitneyyoh.bsky.social•84 days ago

Yup

soulguidance.bsky.social•84 days ago

Peace and quiet.

sampirtle.bsky.social•84 days ago

Me as a child “I just wanna get out of this country. They say love it or leave it. I choose leave it.”

Me as an adult, “thank God I got out of that country.”

andreasbuzzing.bsky.social•84 days ago

Did you ever read My Side of the Mountain? It's about a boy who runs off into the woods and lives there.

suhnih.kawaii.social•83 days ago

Same

theshortviking68.bsky.social•84 days ago

I think we need to start a collective of like-minded people.
Damn! Now I am going full survivalist, cultist mode :-)

jojomsw.bsky.social•84 days ago

“My Side of the Mountain” was really a how-to guide for adults.

americanbookdragon.bsky.social•84 days ago

Oh. I got that after watching Kiki's Delivery Service.

iamnotapostcard.bsky.social•84 days ago

She's the reason I want to move to a tiny neighborhood and set up a post office where my "friend" Frankie and I can hide around our neighbors and I'll never remember my old life!

ecitizen1.bsky.social•84 days ago

Hmm... A 4 year exodus to the woods could be very therapeutic.

daedalust.bsky.social•84 days ago

I want to move to the woods, but also be in community with my people. Nature calls to me. Solitude is needed sometimes, but I love my chosen family.

clarisaclarity.bsky.social•84 days ago

Cabin in the woods sounds pretty good right now. Plus *bonus* you gain apocalypse skills!

lola7492.bsky.social•84 days ago

We have been looking at property with acreage.

mr-gm.bsky.social•84 days ago

Working in IT, the running joke is that we all want to save up enough to move to a remote location and live off the land, never having to deal with technology ever again

shockin404.bsky.social•84 days ago

I thought it was just me but working in IT made me realize I hate technology and I’m in the wrong field of work

romancespell.bsky.social•84 days ago

Growing up is realizing the peace of solitude sometimes speaks louder than the noise of the world. 😶😌

kathyf.bsky.social•84 days ago

I still want to know what happened to that guy the NYT reported on who managed to cease being informed of any news whatsoever after Trump was elected.

zavalixha.bsky.social•84 days ago

Spent time in a cabin last week, the reality of it strengthens 😭

yourdadlikedit.bsky.social•83 days ago

Dude. That’s exactly what we did. We live on a mountain, in the woods.

Awayyyyyy.

litapop.bsky.social•84 days ago

I understand it now

machelledw.bsky.social•84 days ago

In one of those end of world movies the main character stumbled upon an old woman living by herself in the woods. He said something like..."don't you care what's happening to the world?" She said "The world don't care about me, I don't care about the world." I think that's gonna be my motto now.

kaylarudbek.bsky.social•84 days ago

When I was a child I wanted to be a hermit in the woods, but as an adult woman I would have to worry about my neighbors far too much to enjoy it

repressedlatin.bsky.social•84 days ago

According to a source that I read years ago, old power Rome knew Northerners to get strong and then take off and live in the trees, and they would let them.

iamnotapostcard.bsky.social•84 days ago

I am the exact opposite. I grew up in the woods and I was pretty isolated because of no siblings. Now I get some freedom I want to run away. Although probably to the woods alone in a tiny neighborhood where I can establish a tiny post office and I just want to be Eddie Dear don't I?

jaffacakemonster.bsky.social•84 days ago

The very thought sounds bliss and grounding n so relatable

violetmeteorite.bsky.social•84 days ago

I learned this when I was like, 14 lol

averagehistorian.bsky.social•84 days ago

I understand the biblical hermits a bit more for sure

janeezee01.bsky.social•84 days ago

I've got a 19yr old who's ambition in life is to do just that.. I wanna go if he goes...

bagheeraaltered.bsky.social•84 days ago

And now we can work remotely... I need a realtor..

naturalronin.bsky.social•84 days ago

I’ve known this since ‘82 or so and I’m 1000% with you.

maxfastest.bsky.social•83 days ago

I was ready by 1999
I was 39,
My wife wasn't really on board though.
She passed in 2022,of cancer,
I'm 65 now, and not even fit to go off grid anymore.
Ugg.

rioichi4.bsky.social•84 days ago

I grew up in the woods in the middle of nowhere and tbh my only complaints were the lack of Internet and food delivery.

lonelymothman.bsky.social•84 days ago

“Only a crazy person would build a bunker and stock it full of non-perishable food and ammo…”
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“Never mind.”

iamnotapostcard.bsky.social•84 days ago

I have been begging my parents for that since I knew what those were

spicytater.bsky.social•84 days ago

This is why I love living in the mountains.

artboul.bsky.social•84 days ago

This jawn speaks on it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/books/review/cabin-patrick-hutchison.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

teeveeben.bsky.social•84 days ago

God I daydream of a shack in a mythical fanfic Ireland where I have like three neighbors and a barn

kellysinclair.bsky.social•84 days ago

Right. Now you're all grown up and know better. We get wiser with age.

jehoyl.bsky.social•84 days ago

As a child, I remember packing all my Duplo blocks and Fisher Price toys into my backpack and "running away" into the woods behind our house.

About half an acre's width in, it opened up to some farmer's field. I was back home within the hour. No one knew I had gone. 😅

eoauey.bsky.social•84 days ago

Less of us and more of that.

angrynerdbird.bsky.social•84 days ago

dak.lol•83 days ago

same, 10/10

lulibear.bsky.social•84 days ago

50 wooded acres where I can go outside my house and not see another person unless I've invited them to be there is the dream lol

grrlgnag.bsky.social•84 days ago

Every day I get a little closer to becoming one with the trees.

shantiabelike.bsky.social•84 days ago

absolutely get it, sometimes i dont even want a phone 😭

imaginaryplayer504.bsky.social•84 days ago

Henry David Thoreau makes more sense every day

noreen28.bsky.social•84 days ago

Sure if you're close enough for your mom to do your laundry.

blahblah7.bsky.social•84 days ago

The woods is fixin to be crowded

andrewwaterloo.bsky.social•84 days ago

As I get older I've realized that living alone in the woods is 1/10th isolation and 9/10th stuff I don't even do as a hobby.

jenndj.bsky.social•82 days ago

It used to be that I only hated people while driving.

Now it’s anytime someone is within 10 feet. Back up people!

The closer we get to Jan. 20 the worse it gets.

anjelgrace.bsky.social•84 days ago

Right there with you on that thought.

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