I always thought I could live in solitude, near trees and nature without anyone or anything more materialistic than I need for basic survival and of course some wants (economic and commercial).
The thought of living in the nature (maybe near a mountain, a jungle, just somewhere away from civilization) always lured me, it made me think I'll escape my problems related to this modern world.
For one thing, it was an escape and for another it has peace.
The kind of peace we always crave but are unable to find because of over-consuming every media available on the internet. I am not here to rant about doomscrolling and shortened attention span, see what it does, it distracted me from my main topic which was wanting to live near nature because I thought it will give us eternal peace.
But with human beings' peace does not some with having something or shifting somewhere or being with someone, the definition of peace always changes with time and with us growing.
For a long time, I was thinking technology is the culprit, technology will be the reason we'll be doomed (every progress has its boon and bane), but seeing around technology has made our lives easier, convenient and fun.
Since the beginning of mobile phones in India, it was mainly limited calls, limited words we can speak to someone sitting very far away from us, then Dhirubhai Ambani revolutionized our conversations by launching the reliance sim (with unlimited calls plan).
Technology made people closer, made conversation fluent, from few words, hello, how are you, to what happened in the function you attended last weekend (in about 300 words).
This is one of the observation I had, there are millions of upgrade that modern technology made, from amazon's 5 day delivery to blinkit's 10 minute quick commerce.
Now living in nature will not be that feasible (psychologically too), it has to be the presence of sufficient civilization near us so that we do not feel isolated.