So ever since the first day i set foot on the open road, hitchhiking has consumed me. I mean seriously. Realizing just how badly i want to leave, and realizing what not going is doing to me, it comes off as a massive .....possession, obsession, extreme wanderlust, i feel claustrophobic in the city, now im not talking about this from an emotional perspective, but from a scientific perspective.
Hitchhiking, riding trains etc, changes people. When i see hitchhikers passing through town, and the rare hobos passing through. i dont see them as just another person. I mean have you ever taken the time to talk to people like that? They old and hardened half the time and theyve been riding trains for 30 years, or been on the road for half as long, etc. Stories abound in their heads. Theyve been to and fro so many times the road is their home. Now im not saying everyone but you come across the "wierd" , "crazy" ones sometimes.... and people go ugh! but i see them as very experienced travelers, and shit when the world comes to hell as ive been told before by some fellow in OK city, going to amarillo, been on the road 5 years, never quite caught his name, but he said, "son, when the world goes to hell its gonna be us the ones who's gonna be survivin it, and roughin it. cuz we know how to do it the easy way. and them cityfucks dont." Ill never forget that guy. I remember he was first strange to me. It was my first hitchhiking trip. But now when I think of him, and I see his face, I wonder just who he was. See all this im talking about, these lonely travelers, we all have our stories. and when you take it all at face value, and fuckin combine it all together, the people, the changes that take place in ones mind over the years, the lifestyle........ its almost a type of .........i dont know what the word is im looking for. a schizophrenia is what i would call it for some. the way we avoid people. there are many people, out there, traveling, who withdraw from society and seclude themselves.
Ok I know I know theres not alot, but theres a few handfuls AT LEAST, of individuals that live off the beaten tracks some not even on the fucking roads. Some off in fields and deserts and forests and shit. sometimes we do both. i know theres people out there like that and its these people especially, who would qualify as individuals withdrawn from society to a point that later in life when they grow ol dand grey they might be either chill as hell or not, but still somewhat schizophrenic.... not schizophrenia extreme, but in a way, bc living these lifestyles is very different then what most people do, especially when you do it for 30+ years.
Now ive only done it for 3. But shit.... its feels like 10.
Im jsut curious as to what other peoples ideas are on this type of idealogy about hitchhiking and riding trains and shit like that, from a somewhat scientific/ abstract point of view.
does that make sense?
Hitchhiking, riding trains etc, changes people. When i see hitchhikers passing through town, and the rare hobos passing through. i dont see them as just another person. I mean have you ever taken the time to talk to people like that? They old and hardened half the time and theyve been riding trains for 30 years, or been on the road for half as long, etc. Stories abound in their heads. Theyve been to and fro so many times the road is their home. Now im not saying everyone but you come across the "wierd" , "crazy" ones sometimes.... and people go ugh! but i see them as very experienced travelers, and shit when the world comes to hell as ive been told before by some fellow in OK city, going to amarillo, been on the road 5 years, never quite caught his name, but he said, "son, when the world goes to hell its gonna be us the ones who's gonna be survivin it, and roughin it. cuz we know how to do it the easy way. and them cityfucks dont." Ill never forget that guy. I remember he was first strange to me. It was my first hitchhiking trip. But now when I think of him, and I see his face, I wonder just who he was. See all this im talking about, these lonely travelers, we all have our stories. and when you take it all at face value, and fuckin combine it all together, the people, the changes that take place in ones mind over the years, the lifestyle........ its almost a type of .........i dont know what the word is im looking for. a schizophrenia is what i would call it for some. the way we avoid people. there are many people, out there, traveling, who withdraw from society and seclude themselves.
Ok I know I know theres not alot, but theres a few handfuls AT LEAST, of individuals that live off the beaten tracks some not even on the fucking roads. Some off in fields and deserts and forests and shit. sometimes we do both. i know theres people out there like that and its these people especially, who would qualify as individuals withdrawn from society to a point that later in life when they grow ol dand grey they might be either chill as hell or not, but still somewhat schizophrenic.... not schizophrenia extreme, but in a way, bc living these lifestyles is very different then what most people do, especially when you do it for 30+ years.
Now ive only done it for 3. But shit.... its feels like 10.
Im jsut curious as to what other peoples ideas are on this type of idealogy about hitchhiking and riding trains and shit like that, from a somewhat scientific/ abstract point of view.
does that make sense?
