I, 17M, was reading Red Rising while driving through rural Wyoming the other day (I was not driving). Red Rising is an amazing book btw, 10/10 recommend. One particular scene from Red Rising filled me with an intense yearning for off-grid homesteading. What I mean by this is that I want more than anything to live off-grid with a wife in a log cabin on a mountain in the middle of the woods, which makes zero sense: I’m only seventeen?! I have zero survival knowledge and have never been a boy scout I am reliant on and addicted to technology I already have a girlfriend, yet I still dream of a hypothetical soulmate I love talking to other people and want to be a polyglot (speak 3 rn) I’m going to college and then grad school (astrophysics), I’m likely never escaping academia I’m a city person, I love the bright lights and sounds and smells of huge metropolises I’m not conservative nor a tradhusband, and don’t want a tradwife. Now, to be clear, I’ve held this fantasy for a while, but it kind of renewed itself with fervor and it’s almost all I can think about. It’s to the point where I’m reconsidering my career trajectory. I hate how much I want this. I hate how much it conflicts with everything else I want. I need to get this out of my head 🤒 any and all advice is appreciated! submitted by /u/Xx_DiamondDust
Originally posted by u/Xx_DiamondDust on r/AskMen
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