@ecotrain QOTW: What is stopping you from moving to the ecovillage of tomorrow?
Answer: (if I ignore my health) my children, actually the two youngest.
I like traveling and for many years I did, I moved nearly every year.
To me, home is a feeling and not a house, a building. I like a new start, a new challenge but my children are getting older and it is time for them to get an education, to be able to study and start their own lives in a few year's time.
Might be at that time my time is over. If, I am happy I saw them grew up and they had the chance to know me.
Another fact is I do not know any ecovillage where I live.
I never heard anyone mention it. The people around me have their own water well, only gas bottles, some have electricity, part vegetables or animals to eat and they search wood or plant and cut trees for firewood.
A flushing toilet we do not all have. If there is no power a part has no water.
We live a simple life without luxury and cook and bake out of the basics we have or buy.
We could start that village here but a fact is most people who live here can not be trusted and do not like to work. It is easier to steal from the neighbors (poverty is not the reason but greed and envy).
There is no job I have to give up on, no family I leave behind and there are no friends I would stay for.
I never did as I moved. I do not see the need to stay if an ecovillage would come on my way.
I always moved when I felt the need to. I lived the way/lifestyle that fitted me through the years or my income allowed me.
Those I know do the same and I am not telling them how to live their lives either. I doubt anyone would stop me.
The only thing I need is my own place.
One room or two rooms are fine and the animals I have with me. I need room for me so perhaps this is a reason that might stop me from living in an ecovillage?
The fear I have always being with other people, they continue talking, communicating, no rest, no time, no way to follow my instinct and to live by someone else's rules. The pressure and stress it would give me to have my day, life scheduled by others.
