When you hear the word rewilding, you probably think of big conservation projects, right? Well, that’s not wrong. In fact, when I google the word rewilding, the Oxford Dictionary says it is:
“The process of restoring an area of land to its natural uncultivated state ( used especially with reference to the reintroduction of species of wild animal that have been driven out or exterminated).”
Okay, so…
What does Rewilding Your Life Actually Mean?
Well, for me, I would say that it would mean to purposefully break free from what this modern, urbanised world expects from us – and reconnecting with your natural self. Reconnecting with nature. And reconnecting with your creator.
Look, I’m not saying we must completely ditch the modern world altogether, run off to the middle of nowhere, and just start living off the land like primitive people used to. In all honesty, most of us probably wouldn’t even be able to do that.
No… We’re already a bit too ‘soft’ with all the comforts of modern life.
And even though I watch a lot of YouTube videos on primitive living and sometimes fantasise about how amazing it could be… I also really love comfort. Probably more than I’d like to admit.
What Does It Really Mean?
Okay… so, the truth is – I don’t fully know yet what rewilding your life actually means. I’m still figuring that out myself.
But I imagine it looking a whole lot simpler.
In my head, it looks something like this:
- A simple home with only what your family truly needs
- Maybe a more natural home, like a log cabin or earthen home (seriously my dream)
- Making the things you need with your hands (when possible)
- Learning to live without the things you don’t really need – we have so many things we really don’t need
- Caring for the environment and observing how nature works
- Learning your local plants and animals – and maybe even creating small habitats for them
- Cooking simple, home-cooked meals (even though that’s not my strength)
- Eating real foods instead of all the processed stuff we’ve become so used to
- Slowing down and living more grounded and peacefully
- Being grateful and content with less
Final Thought
I just can’t help but feel like there is something more to life than what we are doing now. I feel like everything in life is just a distraction. It is simply just noise and it is completely distracting us from what truly matters.
So, whatever rewilding your life actually means (and I’ll probably figure that out and then write this post again – probably in a couple of years), one thing I do know for certain is this:
Rewilding is a process.
And it begins wherever you are.
