Putting myself out there...

So I've been coming here for a while & feel now is a good time to introduce myself.

I haven't touched a comb since november 2010 & opted for all natural locks. I fought my curly frizzy hair for so long, I hated it for so long and all that is over now. I always thought dreadlocks were awesome and wanted them but thought they required a lot of work so i put it off for a long time. After backpacking around mexico for a summer i decided locks were for me.Unfortunately, I had to wait longer since I was on serious chemo drugs at the time and everyone expected all my hair to fall out. But *I'm Strong* and that didn't happen. Instead my hair stopped growing in curly and after those drugs wrecked my body & not the disease I said F it, its time for a change. So i quit putting my hopes in conventional medicine, i quit usingdeodorant, i quit eating auschwitz meats, i quit shaving my underarms, i quit using harsh chemical products, i quit buying cheap crap from china, i quit and renounced the Plastic Life. For me, my dreadlocks are an outward expression of my inward knowledge of what is important.

I am a college student working towards a plant & soil science degree. I thought I would get a degree and travel the world showing starving villages how to grow their own food using water conservation techniques, how to save seed, how to make and use solar ovens so trees can quit being cut down to be turned into charcoal. I wanted to save the world one organic, open pollinated seed at a time. Now I see that will never be because the world is falling apart around me. I don't want to finish school. I don't want to waste anymore time feeling like I'm an actress with a college student role to play. Going to class, listening to lecture, pretending like all of this is going to pay off in the end.I don't want the money statistics say I could make in two years when I have my bachelors. I want the freedom to spend my time as i want to NOW. To grow my garden, to raise animals, to go hunting without alicense, to shit in the woods, to moonshine & make as many gallons of wine as possible, to have clean groundwater even where oil & natural gas lie underground, to love & live without judgement, without police, without *fences*, without feedlots, without GMO's, without pesticides and without greed.

And this, is who I am.

updated by @raychll: 02/14/15 02:28:01AM

My friend has a vineyard in Stuart Virginia outside of Floyd County where they make and distribute wine. They have all sorts of animals, live off the land and make mountain rum and shoot AK-47's. I don't drink myself or necessarily agree with the heavy fire-arms just wanted to let you know that is a completely plausible dream. Probably more likely than getting a job that pays well. I agree with the medication's as well, I have to take a few thing's so that my legs work for part of the day but a friend of mine was in heavy chemo treatments for a long time and attests most of her cancer going into remission because of herb and holistic treatments. I hope all is well and although we are strangers I'm proud of you for being true to yourself. It's hard to do at times but one of the most important things in this life. Jah Bless

what an intro

hugs

its true the worlds fallin apart but there will be just enough legft to put back together so learning to do thats not a bad thing..basu=ic survival skills for when the human race reaches its full potential for u=ignorance and destruction

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My new book Ban The Taboo Vol 1

*tear*

thank you both. my heart has been feeling the pressure more than usual lately & kind words make existence so much easier.

God Bless you Raych'll.

You SO get it! The time to live and enjoy life is NOW. Some people can do that while still pursuing career goals; for others it's not a part of their journey. I affirm and admire the desires you have! You go, girl. And way to beat the sh*t out of illness, chemicals, and all forms of general nastiness! WHOOT!

Cheering you on from the Hinterlands of Canada!

i agree i wanna live now not later and not waist my time learning stuff thats not gonna do me or anyone anygood but it does seem u are one little person but there are lots of little people that make it big if you know what i meen? we all do what needs to be done and raise our children to do the same like ive been raising mine he knows how to recycle and u know little stuff like that make a difference he's nine and with all that we recylcles he gets 5 dollars may not be alot to us but to him hes it is and teaching them young so it doesnt keep getting worse is the key man im ramblin gotta go xo goodluck in whatever u choose

everything you said in your intro is agreed.

That's beautiful. But why don't you want to finish school? That's a noble idea you've got there. You don't have to do it for money. Dr.'s without borders aren't there for the money. I mean, you could always do it without a degree, yes, but wouldn't it be easier with one?

I am not saying that school is the only way. My room mate just finished school to be a teacher, and all he wants to to is play music and keep mowing lawns. I think he's a fool, but that's for more detailed reasons I don't need to get into here.

School would make what you want to do moreaccessible. I mean, I feel you with living the easy life, but it's not really possible. Nor is it rational. We need police. I don't like them all that much, but they serve a function. The same goes for every other organization like them. Society would not function correctly if we gave it all up right now.

Man kind will need to completely turn itself around. This won't happen until there is a massive disaster here.

The only ONLY reason that European countries have socialist tendencies is because of WWI and II. They weredestroyedand had to find a way to work together in order to rebuild.

OK. I digress

I am very impressed that you were strong enough to fight loosing all your hair. Chemo can be brutal. My father doesn't get chemo, but he does get light radiation therapy. That is terrible on it's own.

Don't you just feel more alive and more human by rejecting all things western? I got so much more energy when I stopped eating chemically altered food. And stopping shaving regularly makes you feel so connected to all things

Baba Fats, you are right that police are still necessary since some folks seem to be unable to control themselves. I guess Im just dreaming up a world where we know each other, and we all maintain some sort of order over ourselves & each other because of our relationship/responsibilities to each other, instead of relying on a dedicated force of people we call police. Keyword:Dreaming! It's just that i would prefer police to protect us, not babysit us. And it is sad, but i think it is also true that it takes a disaster to bring people together, and I see the lines being drawn between the socialist tendencies and WWs. makes sense and i've never thought of them related in such a way.

It is relieving to reject some western ideals, it makes life too stressful trying to live up to those ideals anyway. As for the shaving, i found aninterestingpost on here once (which i, of course, cannot locate now) about native americans who were drafted into the US army, and those who cut their hair lost many of their tracking abilities, it actually happened so frequently that the army quit cutting the native americans hair b/c they were able to detect and sense people better with their hair. Plus, the story of samson & delilah where he loses his power when his hair is cut. I also watched this documentary about andean indians and in one of their sacred chants they mention hair being like "wires to the universe." Sorry a littleramble-y, but im so convinced that hair is capable of so much more than looking pretty on a head, when you mentioned shaving i felt a tangent coming on. anyway, best wishes to you and yer father