Take Back Your Life!

“All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are – tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy – the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.” ~ Jay Griffiths

For some reason, our society likes to de-wild people. At younger and younger ages. For reasons that don’t quite make sense to me.

“Shut up and sit down, please!”

Most will learn to sit more quietly at their school and work desks, presumably learning and producing more. They are deemed brilliant. Those that do not are deemed troublemakers or misfits and left for societal dead.

But are the over-domesticated ones really learning and producing or is that an illusion? And are they happy?

Perhaps not as much as you might imagine.

I meet many people that want to get their freedom back, to be more wild, to feel something, anything but numbness. Life rattles on and you have less and less time to get back to your own true nature.

Every since I was a child climbing high up into the trees or galloping my horse through the woods, I had this urge to free myself and others from the system and create a personal un-system that works for me, for them.

Some people want that, others prefer the known system.  The latter are not my peeps. They are not interested in what I have to say.

At least for now.

They may change their minds down the road when faced with a life changing event. That usually triggers a change in perception or an asking of the questions, “Who am I?” and “What am I doing with my life?”

So, if you are still with me here, perhaps ask yourself, “Am I wild enough? Am in touch with my true nature? Does my life feel like its my own?

If the answer is yes, congrats!

If the answer is maybe or no, take some time to explore who you really are and what you really want. Write it down! Sing it in the shower, Share it with a friend. By taking that tiny step, you’ll be one step closer to undomesticating yourself …

Thanks!