True Life I am Obsessed with True Life

It's true, I am obsessed with a TV show. A TV show on MTV none the less. I think it should be required watching in school. No joke. I feel like I have learned countless lessons, from what it's like to be a stutterer to how scary I find the Jersey Shore. The people stay with me, and I remember their stories when I encounter similar situations in life. It just raises awareness for the plight's of others, and in our selfish society this can't be a bad thing.

That being said, The latest episode, True Life I am Living off the Grid is haunting me. You absolutely HAVE to watch it.

You can find it here.

These people go out into the woods for 11 "moons" (aka months for my fellow sell-outs) and learn to not take from the earth more than they need. They live on things like fish guts and deer head stew. Yup. Now, I consider myself "granola". I love hippies. I love to be outside. I love to go camping. I grew up adhering to the Leave No Trace principles of outdoor ethics. I was describing the episode to roomie and she said that the guy in it sounded like someone I would lust after. She knows me well. So here I am, watching this, thinking to myself that it was pretty cool and wondering if I could ever do it. Then things got crazy. PLEASE watch it. Around the scene about the clams, I lost it. A granola kid can only take so much.


OK I had to come back with this picture of Derik wrestling with his guilt over collecting the elder clams: