Well, this is my plan. I want to have a real homestead,not huge but a decent size, a few acres, and grow crops and have some chickens. The house would be completely off grid, lighting is sunlight and lanterns. Maybe some solar, or something, if I really need it. There will need to be a well, and the only thing that I’m not fully sure of is sewage, though there would be an outhouse I suppose.
Ideally I would build my own house but then again… maybe not. I would add on to it though, perhaps.
You can always set time limits on your phone so your apps will shut off after that time has passed. In our society it’s extremely difficult to function without it, but you can minimize how much you use you want to. Time away from screens is restorative.
Oh no, my phone isn’t a problem. If my phone broke, I wouldn’t be effected really. Its my school chromebook that’s the problem. I spend too much time on it sometimes, either on this website or on YouTube, or on wikipedia, or whatever else. TV is a bit of a problem, but once Ive finished these last 2 seasons of Downton Abbey, Il be done because there’s nothing else I really want to watch. Il ask my parents to confiscate the remote from me.
I’ve found a blocker I use (well I haven’t been using it I suppose) that I can finagle to block everything on this website other than my own logs. And I can block YouTube, but my excuse is sometimes its just so useful for searching something up. But I’ve found that its not great anymore. So much crap. I don’t even touch YT shorts because its all garbage anyway. I quit using that a long while ago. The only time I’m on it is if it has exactly what I’m asking for, and then I click off of it. It helps being on a laptop so I can’t actually scroll.
Wikipedia can be a drain for me, as I search up one thing, and find myself clicking through the links to other articles until I’m completely distracted and have to search what I was supposed to be looking for.
The thing has a timer option, but it doesn’t work for YouTube, for some reason. Or this website. I don’t think I found a website It works on actually. If its on a timer, its just not blocked at all.
TV is interesting because I don’t even like it that much. Its not interesting. Downton Abbey isn’t that interesting of a show, but I like it. Probably because its easy for my mind to get dopamine. When I finish the show I’ll get off of it. I only started using it because we got it for the first time after not having it for awhile. We have a Kindle or whatever.
One of my favorite things to do is just cold turkey stop watching a show. I tell myself it’s not important. Since, I will have no future conversations about the show and it only distracts from what I could be doing between relaxing or productive endeavors, it’s of no importance.
I do this too. I don’t see this as a negative tho. In fact, quite the opposite. To me, it’s equivalent to reading a book.
It occured to me that you don’t have to chart your lifes path just yet either. While its definitely good to be thinking about your future, and doing what you can to ensure a good one, what you might think is a great idea now could change significantly in the next few years.
I’d second that. If you want to live off the grid in the future, start learning. Plan some primitive camping trips where you bring very minimal supplies. I used to love doing that. Id bring tent, fishing pole, knife and rifle or shotgun. Have to round up firewood and bait, then eat what you catch/kill. I’d often bring some bread or crackers as backup food if I failed. I really miss camping like that, but most people (like my wife) want to have some creature comforts. If you go camping like that a few times, you learn a lot.
Do what you really want to do but do it good. There is no assured path anymore so there is no point in choosing a ‘‘safe’’ route. I chose the ‘‘safe’’ route but it didn’t pay any more than if I had done what I really wanted. Also learn to ignore everyone around you, this is your own adventure. If you do what you really feel like doing, it will be a lot easier to do it well and you will have gained something constructive for yourself by giving it all you had. And then in the worse case scenario you can branch out (or not) and be recognized by society for having done something well, even if it is not what you end up. In my case I couldn’t make a choice when I was young and went in some middle way that failed.