Free

Over thirty years ago I spent nearly two years backpacking around the world, this time in my life was the freest I have ever been. This I think was because of many factors, and it is very hard to create the same freedom I felt in the commercialised world that the UK is. Also, I think that having less belongings, in fact hardly anything, just a backpack, was liberating. With having no fixed abode, the pressure of money is massively reduced and the basic principles of just food and shelter felt easier than all the struggles we have of money in our lives in the UK. Finally, I feel that the lifestyle while travelling was one spent outdoors and that is such a freeing experience not being constrained by being indoors all the time. I do feel that if we work on taking some of these principles on in our lives, we can feel the freedom of living our lives more simply.