Society Depressing Me

[Insight]

Is society depressing for anyone else on here? Sometimes I just don't see the point... But when ever I go hiking in the woods I am actually happy again.

Can I just live out in the woods the rest of my life? Living in civilization just gets so depressing for me, waiting in traffic, going to a meaningless job, paying meaningless bills...

 

[Killashandra]

Society gets to me too, so bad at the moment I can't work or leave the house without major anxiety kicking in, I don't watch the news, and in the book I'm working through it actually says that we shouldn't watch too much of it, it can rigger inner and outer critic barrage of ourselves.

Now.. I am lucky that I do actually live in the woods as you say, I live in rural australia nearest neighbours are 500 mrs I live on 5 acres.
So I say go for it. I travel 15 mins to work 20 kms away so no traffic it's all highway..

Don't get sucked in by media. Media focuses on the depressive too much. And yes go live in the woods if you have the means! I love the seculsion.

Killa x

 

[Carlos Menem]

Humans are indeed social animals, but that doesn't mean that we can't be perfectly happy outside of society too.

I deactivated my Facebook account recently and I don't leave my house except for going to therapy or a jog. It's just what I need right now.

 

[Deleted member 29920]

You're not the only one, I'd love to live in the woods instead.

 

[Heather]

Me too. Although, I'd probably miss the mall.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I am sixty one years old and things have changed so much since I was a child. I feel for the kids in this generation because the world is not as safe as it was when I was a child. Also the devices and cell phones. People are not talking to each other very much anymore because they are so hooked into their technology.

When I was a child I had so much freedom to roam and play. Fields all around and cities were not so overcrowded. Traffic was not so bad either.

Yet I have made my home into my refuge and sanctuary and I always relax when I come home. I can only take civilization in small doses anymore. No place to go on walks or hikes around here like it was when we had our log cabin in the mountains for twenty five years. Lots of serenity there, and we always felt it coming home.

 

[ladee]

I live in a rural town, but it has become very busy over the past 10 yrs. I hate the traffic here on weekends. But I have access to lots of woods and back roads to relax and see no one. It's just too noisy, and people in a hurry to go do the next unimportant thing. I agree, I stay inside a lot , as soon as I go outside to just feel the air on my skin, I have to work at tuning all the noise out. Not natural noise.. I love that... it's the human made noise that rattles me... and people look at me because then I am frowning.... oh well, maybe that will keep them from trying to talk to me.

 

[Friday]

Not really. I tend to fall far more on the side of people are amazing! sense of awe and wonder as I look at the world around me. Engineering, art, medicine, science, military, cultures, customs, languages, communication, tech, history, sport, cities, farms, temples... It's very National Geographic inside my head most of the time.

That doesn't mean I can deal with society/people all the time. Nor that -if I'm capable of dealing- that I choose to or want to.

I've spent several years, on a few different occasions, homeless/jobless... Completely removed from society, as one example of several.

My ability to do a thing, rarely affects my admiration for a thing. There was a time when it did. I've just gotten far more jaded over the years. ;)

"I have loved the stars too fondly, to be fearful of the night."
- Galileo

 

[Sighs]

We live on 50 acres, about 20 km from the nearest small town. Shortly after our place the road becomes dirt, travels into a National Park and does not have come through another small town for about 150km. (We have one of those signs that says "NO FUEL for 172km" just after you leave town.) But my vet needs to "go bush" regularly. You'd think we were already bush but not enough apparently.

He can't deal with society and think the world has already gone to hell in a handbasket. Sigh!

 

[EveHarrington]

I dream of having a nice small cottage out in the woods, near a lake.

Ahhhh, it would be heaven!

Modern society is believed to increase mental health issues. We evolved in small tribal type groups of ~40 individuals. Nothing like what we experience today. The social structure is completely different.