A life of convenience? Really?

Conveniences has been a hot topic in our household. In our house, we usually talk about life's (in)conveniences in the evening. Generally after being somewhere surrounded by the chaos of modern life's 'conveniences' and....once the babies have gone down to sleep. These conversations have many outcomes ranging from happiness to frustration, peace to tears and so on.

{Before I get started, let's make one thing clear, we drive cars, I own phones and a computer and we eat store bought food - less from Sept-Nov when our garden blesses us with it's bounty. I appreciate the conveniences of life just like anyone else. It's when you see or experience it to the extreme that it begins to worry me}.

A while back in life, I met this man. A simple man, quiet, calm and lovely human....I was and still am dang-near the exact opposite. We married and it has been good for me. A learning experience. We began our life together not long ago yet so much has changed in the way we both perceive the world. SO MUCH. We have evolved together. We have evolved away from mainstream thinking. We are forging our own path in this world and I hope to share some of this here:

Now-a-days we've (generally, as a human race) become so detached from the world and all of it's wonder. What is that all about? We've become so concerned with stuff and things that we've lost intuition something that should come so natural to us....something we've been hardwired (LITERALLY) to do and to know. Did you know that we can all see auras? DID YOU KNOW YOU SEE THEM EVERYDAY?? You're not believing me right now but, I assure you, it is true. Stuff and things have got in our way. When did we lose this natural ability? How have we strayed so far from our natural ways?

My goal is to seek this kind of nature. To teach this to my crystal children. To transform our little world into the world that once was.

I find it interesting that, in a world so full of technology so many people feel lost and alone and....unhappy. What is it that is failing us? I wonder if society has evolved beyond repair? I would be interested to find out how many people are truly at peace and happy in the lives that they lead. I'd be most especially curious to do the same test and test by location, socio-economics, spirituality, religious belief etc. And if they are "happy" and "peaceful" in the lives that they lead if they ever truly contemplate the way it was. Back before facebook, back before the internet, back before sliced bread and awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back before the days of homesteading and living from the earth (which, for the record, was once clean).

In this day, so full of convenience, I feel that many people find it inconvenient to choose healthful foods, to sit and look their toddler in the eyes, to carry babies, to play outdoors, to grow their own food, to love themselves unconditionally to, look at the deeper meaning of life, to contemplate alternatives (alternatives for ....anything), to ....fend for themselves. Our dependence on material items and on others confuses me and...disturbs me. Ever seen the movie WALL-E? (more on that in another post) I worry that the world has bred out our patience or jaded us to the point of believing that someone else can do better for us than we can.

I like to think that there is more than meets the eye. In every case. I wonder what others think?
I'm going to roam about with my little family and see what there is to see, do what there is to do and try my hand at many things. I think that getting 'back to nature', as cliche as that sounds, would be an interesting way to learn about people, the world and what can be done to bring a a sense of peace to a small place in the world (a big place in my life).

Will report back with my findings.