Do You Live In The Country? I Do And I Wouldn’t Live Anywhere Else.
I’m lucky enough to live the country life and I just love living here. I’ve lived out here for 10 years now, that’s more than I care to remember actually. And I grew up in the city but I wouldn’t really want to go back there any more, in fact you’d have to drag me back.
There’s lots of things in the country that you just can’t get in the city at all. For example I love to cycle. It keeps me fit and less fat, and I know I need to keep fit. It gets me outdoors and I love the outdoors, here out in the country.
Around me there’s so much to cycle past, the view is hot. Fields with cows, alpacas, sheep and goats. Horses too, though I don’t like horses so much which is a shame. But I love cows and sheep and I have my own cows, each with its own calf, and I love them dearly. Each is treasured.
There’s so many advantages to living out here and cows and calves at my place is just one of them. It’s nature and I love nature. You can’t live without nature.
Its summer now and its hot, really really hot. We’ve had some really stinking hot days lately. Now of course if I lived in the city it would still be hot. But here I see the cycle of the seasons so well I feel more intune with it. I feel more at one with the seasons and with nature now. I see the grass wilt and die when summer comes, I see the grass regrow and get green again for winter. It see snow, I see drought, I see rain. It’s all part of nature.
I see the leaves of the trees turn different colors, there’s so many wonderful colors. I see the new trees growing underneath the old ones when the seeds germinate. I see the old and the young, I see the new and the not so new. It’s the cycle of life.
Nature cycles just like me, and I love to watch it all happening right through the year. It’s the renewal of life over time.
If I lived in the city I mightn’t even have a garden. AndI mightn’t have a tree at all. I might have a lot of concrete, I might have a balcony and a BBQ, but I mightn’t have a tree or a blade of grass or a cow or a sheep.
And unlike here I probably wouldn’t get to see the seasons change like I do now, and the seasons are a whole part of change.
The city is so sterile. I spent a lot of years there so I know what its like. Now of course that’s just a personal view, but that’s how I feel about it and I know not everone feels that way.
Even the rest of my own family live there. My brother loves it and he’s single so I suppose he needs more social life than me, and there’s probably more social life in the city. But I don’t like it.
I grew up in the city and spent most of my life there. Then it was fine but it really feels now as if I wasted a lot of time in the city, I wish I’d been born in the country instead. I feel a little like I wasted a lot of my life in the city, that’s sad isn’t it?
Well not wasted I suppose, but that’s how I feel. I waste it at all of course. I should ask my brother if he’d like to live here but I doubt he would. He likes the city. That’s his prerogative.
So now it’s the country for me and that’s where I intend to stay. You won’t see me in the city again.
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