What image does a nomadic existence give?

[Dragonfly]

If your house is a mirror image of yourself, what image does a nomadic existence give?

Have you heard that your house is a mirror to yourself?

Clutter interpreted as unstructured thoughts. Some people can't think straight if their house is messy.

Typical Japanese houses didn't have 'personal bedrooms' as such, they had communal rooms that converted to sleeping rooms during the night. This also reflects in their value of the 'self' in their society. Its value is only in its respect to the society.

How would a nomadic existence describe you or nomadic cultures?

[Sunshine]

Cool?

[bert29]

Well, that's an interesting question that I haven't thought about like that, and I am happy that you bring it up....

I guess the biggest change that you experience in those cases is the sudden lack of personal possessions, since you can not carry them around. So, all those things that seemed life-basics back home now they become superfluous. And the best thing is, after very little days you don't miss them anymore.

So at least, nomadic people learn to live happily with less, and to value what is necessary and what is not to live with satisfaction. I guess if somebody is too attached to their possetions, wouldn't be able to cope with a lifestyle where you just have what fits in your backpack (or other carrying-mean). But this same people can learn to loosen up this attachement by having a taste of this lifestyle.

People who adopt a nomadic lifestyle coming from a western background, these days, show, first, a disconformity with the system they have been put in, and a brave try to go further away the bubble the machinery of society tells you must fit. It is of course impossible to totally escape this system, and I guess it is not any option that lets you step fully aside, but symbolically is what comes to me.

Keep it up!

[Dragonfly]

Thanks for that Sunshine...

Hi Bert29
You didn't really reply to the topic at point... which was, to be rather pedantic about it - What image does a nomadic life give, given the premis that a house mirrors your self.

You think that having less possessions is the main focus of being nomad? And this leads to a different set of values? Perhaps, even, as you suggest, being happy with less?

[bert29]

I don't know if simply "having less possessions" but surely some sort of disconformity with the social system.

However, I think everybody is different, and you can find many reasons that makes people pack their backpacks and go for a long time, and many of them are not as romantic as "trying to live outside the world"...