No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees..

There comes a point to which one must analyze, reevaluate and take in what is truly occurring in their lives and their world around them. It may take something extreme to allow this evaluation and self-reflection to occur. For me it has been several events of late that have brought on my personal reflection. Almost all aspects of my life have had a major shift toward the negative (or so I would have thought if not for the reflection).

I have spent most of my life building my career and wealth for a "brighter future". This brighter future consisted of mostly material belongings. A nice house, cars and enough money so sustain my greed basically. I was consumed by consuming. I am designed to consume. I am told to consume, so I did so at a ridiculous rate, as do most of our society.

My future was extremely bright as I saw it. An amazing job, an amazing partner, money, cars and motorbikes and enough shit to keep any person blind to what was actually occurring. Greed and unnecessary spending. The thought of this was always in the back of my mind. I have held these beliefs quite high but over the past few years they have slipped away behind the wasted dollar signs.

The point at which I decided to leave all of this behind occurred when my dream job become quite unstable due to management becoming extremely greedy and money hungry as it so happened. So called best friends stabbing each other in the back for more power as the business became rapidly successful. I have worked for these people (and became very close friends) since the businesses inception and helped build it to what it is today, one of Australia's fastest growing and successful start up brands. To see my hard work go down the drain for pure greed has further shaped my beliefs and strengthened my feelings toward money, power and societies greed in general.

At first I was devastated but I am thankful this situation came about as it gave me the opportunity to sit back and take everything in and to evaluate to what extent I was living my life. Heading straight down the same path as these greedy monsters.

There's much we can do without.

I don't think totally abandoning bourgeois culture will solve this problem however much can be improved and I intend on doing so in my personal life.

It will be a grand adventure. A rejection of hierarchy, power, greed and status. I am casting myself out of the general community and testing my deepest, strongest beliefs.

Surely I can do something more with my life than work to consume and be bound by rules thrown upon us since birth? I can see past this, by reevaluating life, I now can see the truth or at least what I believe truth to be.