Cottage Life

So yesterday i got back from a cottage trip and it left me with a bunch of thoughts, first one being how awesome it was. I got to spend 4 days with my girlfriend without parents around, all day and night. I just became so simply relaxing for my body and soul.

It just felt so renewing and refreshing to just be, just do, not worry about work or parents, or chores or anything at all. It was all around wonderful.

And yet the moment i got there i felt the bullshit.

In order to understand this point fully i need to travel back to high school (shocking, i seemed to have actually learned a lot there). It was a movie we watched about the death of suburbia. And it talks about how suburbia was supposed to blend the best of the urban life with the rural life.

This means that it is supposed to be close enough to walk wherever you need (urban good side). At the same time it is supposed to be far enough away from the city that you get to experience nature- note the yard(rural good side).

Seems awesome right? Now the problem is that it doesn't work that way. I mean you can live in suburbia and live close enough to walk, but close enough to be convenient in the modern mind? Nope. Furthermore has anyone ever seen nature in suburbia? I haven't besides the squirrels and the birds and the occasional raccoon/skunk.

Sorry people, doesn't count. Most nature you wont even see in actual forests cause animals have smartened up to avoid people, we tend to kill them/trap them/poison them.

So suburbia is basically a house with lots of space and creature comforts and a yard which we can design the way we want.

And what is a cottage? A house with a lake view and a yard you can design, so close to your neighbors that all the animals run away.

The trip up there was fun but at the same time it would have been just as fun to hang out at a house without parents down here. Because that's what it was, a house with a very nice view of water, in suburbia. Forget real nature, it seems to me to simply be an imitation that makes you feel a little bit better and you don't have to worry about the dust there as much.