The following is what I posted about 7 months ago on a new blog I was starting during a tumultuous period of my life. A lot has changed and in the last few weeks I've been getting my drive back. I've set some ambitious farm/agricultural goals for this season, and built some cool things that are hardly fine furniture. It's coming back together.
"Hi, my name is Trevor, I'm 26 and I live in Philadelphia.
I'm having a crisis.
You
see I've got two major loves that pitch me down a rabbit hole nearly
daily. I love to learn, by doing, reading or hearing what others have to
say. I'm also deeply motivated by doing what's right for the planet in a
long term legitimately sustainable set or practices.
The
need to balance these motivations makes me want to quit my job and move
into the woods nearly weekly;
but that brings a whole slew of problems
stemming from my debts (University, what a brilliant idea, "Here, spend
$120,000 and 4 years doing what we say to figure out what you want your
life to be about) (I'm out of debt as of 2/6/2014!). Ultimately I look at one or two workshops, maybe
$1000 in leisure reading (that you could borrow), a visit to Dickinson's
campus, hiking in the Wissahickon park, and working at
Weavers Way
co-op for my working member shifts as the most influential experiences
in my "green" education. Added together they account for about 3% of the
time, money and effort I spent (along with my parents, and the
government) getting a "practical education". I made awesome, lifelong
friends, and yes I had the opportunity to discover these things partly
through college, but that doesn't mean I couldn't find them without.
I
find it funny, here I am 3 years into a career after college, yes I use
my skills gained and interests in my work but when I go home at night I
find myself browsing biodiesel, waste vegetable oil heaters and
cook-stoves, renewable energy, self sufficiency, eco-minimalism, beehives, farmland to buy, Sketch-Uping tiny house plans, etc. The poignant take away is that these are all words you'd find
archived on my internet history from high school. Maybe if I started
reading soon enough I would have been fortunate enough to become that
amazing college drop out, who's well adjusted, completely focused in
life and totally at peace."
Yes I've quoted myself, I know it's uncouth. It's fine.
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