I've been getting this itch for the past few months just to drop everything, quit school, quit my job, and free myself from the norms and customs that society has artificially placed upon us. Anyone else get the itch?
Posted Sep 4, 2016, 2:49 AM UTC
I lived in a van for six months immediately after finishing high school. It was an excellent decision for me at that time.
I've been thinking about it, after university I want to sell most of the stuff I own, buy a backpack and just walk off. I'd visit all the small towns in my country and only travel using a map. I'd have a basic cellphone and a good camera and carry all the items I'd need with me in my backpack. For money I'd probably see if I could find odd jobs to do here and there but never settle down for more than a few weeks.
Better sooner than later. One day we're gonna be too old to jump off a moving train.
Yes, I agree but I feel if I don't go to university now, I might never end up going. I'd rather get that out of the way first.
Definitely get your education out of the way. I'm 26 now and will be going back to school in a few months. Just need to finish a couple years and I'll have a degree. I have found that minimum wage will not get me very far in life.
I do but then I am extremely conflicted by leaving my comfortable life. Then if I am too comfortable, I am wasting my life because I am not experiencing it.
The cycle repeats
I've been thinking about it for years. I've planned it out in great detail in my mind. Everything from where I would find food, hide things I need around the city, everywhere I could sleep and shower.
I think if I could get some sort of small income from something like a rental property, say like 800 a month I could definitely live off that wandering around and sleeping outside. Would even keep a gym membership. But I would get rid of my cellphone. Probably only have a back pack with just a few items that I would use everyday, toothbrush, soap, etc. I'd start out in my current city in Georgia and make my way up north. Eventually I'd try to sneak into Canada. The money from the rental property would only be used for emergencies. I would like to attempt to live off of only found food. Dumpsters and foraging and working for food.
However much I day dream about doing this it never looks like the rest of my life. I like to think I could maintain it for a couple years but I doubt I'd make it a month. I would wanna be as hardcore as diogenes but don't think I got it in me. I know how to do it, but can't bring myself to do it.