I often think about how everything in life has an ending and I can't help but think about all I have in this life and its inevitable ending. I try to absorb as much as I can here in the Philippines although, I often get so caught up in my work routine that I forget to go outside and enjoy it. Like everyone else I still find myself a slave to money. I try to imagine what it might be like to be completely free from money. Living off of land I own and living in a house I built on it. Growing my own food and living completely off of the land. It seems strange to think that this sort of life was one time completely normal. I have no idea where the food I buy from my grocery store comes from and have no idea what chemicals are in the food I'm eating. I think we've lost something of ourselves with the convenience of all our technology. I love the internet and my cell phone just as much as the next guy and some would argue that its brought us closer because we can stay in touch with one another. I'm not sure I agree with that at least on every level. We are at a point where one job just can't support a home in today's economy and we spend so much time at work that the people we work with are seen more than family members. I don't know what the answer to this world's problems are but something seems very wrong with this world. I just want to see what its like to live without the system we are all so dependent upon. A system that seems to be failing us all more everyday. There are so many people living here in the Philippines on so little I don't see why I can't live the same way. So I'm working to remove myself from the desk so I can see what the world is really like.