Send Me To Sleep | Cabins (Voice Only)
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Why does Andrew crave solitude in a remote cabin?
More and more these days, I get this desperate urge to go away somewhere remote into a deep and thick forest and hunker down in a log cabin for a short while. I don't know if that's a feeling you can empathize with. I sort of feel like it's something that a lot of people feel at one point in their life or other. I've certainly heard other friends of mine express something similar, to go away somewhere peaceful, usually within nature, and experience a period of solitude as a means of re-centering, reconnecting. you might be able to empathize with that feeling, perhaps. I think now, in fact, might be a time in my life when I certainly feel a little bit like that. Sometimes it feels like I actually don't get very much time to be by myself when, in fact,
That's not necessarily true because I'm someone who works from home and I work alone. So many hours of the day I actually spend entirely by myself. But when you're focused on work and the demands of others... it sort of takes away something from yourself. The way in which your mind focuses, or rather, should I say, the things that your mind focuses on are relatively different to what they might focus on if you were given the chance to simply be yourself and have thoughts that occur naturally to you how do I put it, more easily, thoughts that you want to have, I suppose. That's to imply that during the working day you are filled with thoughts that you don't want to have. Almost sounds sinister, but I simply mean it in the sense that
You are influenced most of the time by other people and the goals that you often seek to achieve on a day-to-day basis. regularly are not in service of yourself so much as other people. I suppose ultimately you could say that all goals are in service of yourself. There is perhaps a deeper and longer singular philosophical conversation to be had simply on that point. But, no, I think... All of that is to say, even though I am by myself for long stretches of time during the day, I don't feel like I have that solid personal time, that time that is truly my own to do whatever I wish with. And for some reason, the expression of that ultimate personal time always seems to in my mind come in the form of driving away somewhere like i say remote and in the heart of nature
Perhaps I have just a small backpack with me, with some clothes and a few small supplies, and wandering through a dense woodland, perhaps following a stream along a path and eventually making my way to an old, rustic wooden cabin. when the sun is just setting and putting my bag down on the porch settling myself in and perhaps lighting a small contained fire out on the porch of the cabin and I sit by as I breathe in the night air and listen to the swaying in the trees and the sounds of nocturnal birds and nighttime critters and stare into the fire and simply exist with my own thoughts. And now, There is an argument to be had that in such a state, when you are away from those outside influences and simply with yourself and with nature in a natural environment,
that you are an expression of your truest self. Because like I say, as I am disturbed during the day by the wants and wishes of others and often have to dedicate myself to their causes in the state that I've described, you can simply be yourself. And certainly I think, depending on what kind of life you live and perhaps even just what time it is in your life, you can certainly feel more connected to yourself. To go and take a break like that. But I suppose there's also an argument to be made that in some ways some of you can be lost by doing something like that.
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