Living In a Place Where I Could Enjoy the Simple Pleasures All Around Me!



Posted: Friday, September 16, 2011

by Iris Taub

I don't think there is one particular place I would want to live that would not involve the smell of the ocean, or the sound of a water flowing gently down into a lake or pond.  The smell of nature, the chirping of birds and other animals without the smell of so called modern technology!

Call me sentimental or stuck in the innocence of my youth, but some of the happiest memories I had was when my husband and I were teenagers and would take a trip upstate New York with our tents and hiking into the campsites, anticipating a wonderful weekend commuting with nature!  We would build a campfire and roast baked potatoes with tin foil in the flames of the fire and take a dip and jump into the cool refreshing waters of the lakes in those surrounding camp grounds.  Life was simple then, just wearing the clothes on our backs, sleeping in our tent and watching the stars at night and breathing the clear crisp air.  We hoped that those days would never end but then reality set in and it back to the city and back to our hectic lives.

Once we got married, and started a family our idea of roughing it involved going to a motel with a pool and those days with commuting with nature were now taking our children to a state nature preserve and seeing stuffed animals and information cards on the animals that we could sometimes see in their natural habitat so long ago.

I wish I could recapture those days with my grandchildren and show them first hand how beautiful nature is and how sometimes leaving well enough alone is a gift and that progress is not necessarily a good thing!

This assignment asked if I could live anywhere would would I live, the answer is simple, in a log cabin surrounded by nature and sharing the wonders all around me with my grandchildren.  Of course, now that cabin would have to have all those modern conveniences of plumbing but I could easily live without reality TV, ipads, or anything else that would distract me from learning and teaching my grandchildren about all the wonders that were around me that most of us either take for granted or never take the time to embrace.

I hope we never loose our ability to appreciate the simple pleasures that surround us and that we don't get to a point when progress is more important than what nature has to offer.

Although modern technology has enriched our lives in many ways, let's not get carried away and destroy the simple beauty of nature.

Iris S. Taub

Parkland, Florida
Where I'd Live.
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