Sedentary Life

If our great-grandparents could time travel to our day and age, I suppose it would be obvious to them why depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses are so rampant. Why they appear in such high numbers. Imagine what they would see when observing our daily lives:

A person waking in their home to go to their 9-5, commuting on a crowded freeway in a smoggy city with thousands of others doing the same thing. They spend their day in an office, working for someone else. They then commute home on the same road in the same smog with the same thousands of people. They walk inside and turn on the tv, then go to bed late. 

I wonder if our ancestors look down on us and say, "Don't you do anything else?" 

Most people don't know how to plant a garden. Or raise animals for meat. Or milk a cow. Or hunt. Or do a lot of the basic things our ancestors did that was just a part of their daily survival. They were busy. They were always building, doing, working towards something. They knew exactly their purpose and why they were doing what they were doing.

I wonder if they would look at our past times and wonder why we spend so much time doing...nothing. Watching TV. Scrolling on our phones. Playing computer games. 

People weren't meant to be so dang sedentary. Get out there and find a purpose! Dig in the dirt. Create something. Build something. Set a goal and then work hard to achieve it! Wake up in the morning and cook breakfast, then GO OUTSIDE. Leave the job you hate. There are so many other options. Be brave enough to build yourself a happy life. 

XO, The Cowboy's Wife