I had to decide where I wanted to live a few years ago after some time overseas.
I decided to live in the country. I love living in the country, Ive been here for quite a few years now and I wouldn’t live anywhere in the city again, though that’s where I grew up.
There’s so many things in the country that you just cannot get in the city. For example I love to ride bikes. It keeps me fit, and I know I need to keep fit. It gets me outdoors and I love the outdoors and getting out on the road.
I ride past so many wonderful things, and so many good views. I love to see the cows in the fields and I see sheep and other animals as well. I even have my own cows and they give me calves which is great too, both for selling them and for watching them.
Having cows and calves around just makes me feel good. It makes me love nature, it makes me see the cycles of life, and I really think life is all about cycles.
Its summer right now and its very very hot. We’ve had some really hot days lately. Now of course if I lived in the city it would still be as hot. But here I see the cycle of the seasons so well. I feel more at one with the seasons and with nature now and that feels good. I see the grass grow then die when summer comes, I see the grass regrow and get green again for winter. It see snow and I see drought and I see rain.
All the leaves turn such wonderful colors, and they fall off and they look so good all on the ground around the base of the trees, and the trees drop seeds and new baby trees start to grow underneath them all. I get to see the old and the young, all cycling, all nature.
Nature cycles just like me, and I love to watch it all happening right through the year, winter and summer.
Maybe if I lived in the city I’d have a little garden or maybe a big garden, maybe even no garden. And I might not even have a tree or shrub. Maybe all I’d have is some concrete in my back yard and no more, except a BBQ perhaps. I do love BBQs.
Apart from the temperature I mightn’t even know which season it is.
It’s so sterile in the city and I spent a large part of my life there so I’ve been there. Of course it’s just me that thinks it’s sterile, others don’t Well not everyone.
My own family still live there now, including my brother. He’s a doctor and he’s single and he like the city so he’s happy with the social life there. He likes all that stuff and so he’s happy living in the city, but I’m not.
I’ve lived in the city for quite a long time, I grew up there and I really feel now like I’ve wasted so many years. Now of course I didn’t waste them I had my time and I lived my life but it feels like wasted time a bit. I should ask my brother if he’d like to live in the country, it would be nice if he lived nearby. But even if I suggested that to him I doubt that he’d move here.
Give me the country any time, give my brother the city, we’re all different.