I’m so tired of this life. I work so hard for what other people think I should have but none of it is really important to me. The newest electronics, nice house and car, it all just makes life more complicated and stressful. I want a more simple life. I am so tired of living in a man-made world. It is taking me away from what God made. Sometimes I wish I could just escape this life and become someone who lives depending only on what God made.
When I was in college I wanted to become a nurse and then study to become a midwife, delivering babies in women’s homes. I shadowed an experienced midwife for a while and it was a life changing experience. She delivered primarily for the Amish community. To be around the Amish and to see how they live is amazing. The whole community is there for each other. Men don’t need jobs, they all work for themselves – entrepreneurs using what God gave them in talents and in resources to build a life for themselves. The whole community is self-sufficient, trading what they have for what they need, women gardening, canning, and drying food for the winter. It’s a hard life but I can imagine its a heck of a lot better than working in retail or food service 60 hours a week to pay that $300 electric bill when fire is free heat, light, and you can cook all your food with it. All the other things like TV and digital picture frames are just useless things to make life complicated and expensive. The media is the reason we think we need things like this. This world is so brainwashed… and right now im living like everyone else. But I don’t plan on living like this for long.