For some people, mere survival is enough

You know those content creators whose niche is living in a hut in the wilderness, most likely in a cold climate, and they show their everyday lives as they try to survive? Perhaps isn't not survival in the most uncivilized sense, but they need to heat up the house, make their way into the grocery store through a snowstorm, find a way to boil water without electricity, bathe in an icy lake, and so on.

It caters nicely to the burned out - stressed out - hectic mentality of the modern city dweller whose life revolves around office culture and climbing the corporate ladder.

I admit that the simple hut life sounds extremely relaxing: you have a good excuse not to do something more meaningful when just making it through each day is such survival against the elements. It sounds like a good vacation.

For a week or two.

I don't think I'd make it longer, and the reason isn't because I lack survival skills (I bet everyone has them when they're necessary) - it's because I don't think I'm the kind of person who could just survive.

Survival is a high. But it's a temporary high.

Unless you're one of those people who actually, positively, expandingly thrive on just that.

RK out.