eek.. the scary bit!!
I'm a 33yr old bloke. I'm currently living in Wolverhampton,UK. I was Born in a town called Burnley(up north).
I'm an electrical engineer by trade and currently work for myself.. doing contract work anywhere in the world. Mostly i end up writing plc software for machines these days.
I'm a pretty chilled kind of person... I love trees and hope to grow my own woodland one day.
How did i get here???
I started to feel, a few years ago(2003), that its all a complete waste of time!.. It made no sense, life just seamed so pointless.. when you think about what you are doing day in and day out..
you get up, goto work for 10-16hrs, come home and switch on the pc/tv then goto sleep... then do the same thing every day.
All that you are consumed with is making money and trampling on anyone that gets in your way!
Luckily about 2.5 years ago i took redundancy and set myself up as a contractor this enabled me to slow down and think.
This is when my interest in trees started. I was doing a job over in Shrewsbury and while traveling along the motorway there are some really lovely countryside around there... i just kept thinking wouldn't it be wonderful just to sell up and move into that woodland and live a simple life with no hassle or stress(well the wife said "no").
Well that thought changed my life.. Ive spent nearly two years now studying trees. That thought has become the thing that has kept me pretty sane. That all changed again about a week ago now....
I was bored as usual... sat in front of the PC watching some videos on youtube. I quite like the Louis Theroux documentaries, anyhow i came across one that i have never seen before which is about "Enlightenment".. so i started watching it.. and thought "wow... these people have the kind of happiness and contentment in there lives that i have been looking for years"... Thats how i ended up here.. looking for questions and answers.
I do believe that my life is at a huge cross roads... I only hope i have a good sense of direction :)
Hare Krishna!