The Great Outdoors

The ability to leave the house

Ben Shelley
4 min readMar 10, 2024
Photo by Ben Dumond on Unsplash

The great outdoors. We take it for granted these days that we will always be able to access it but that isn’t the case, is it?

  • What about when we are old or when we are sick?
  • When we are too tired or have no desire to do anything but sit and stare?

It is very easy in this world to forget about what we do have and focus instead on what we do not have.

This is very human and very understandable.

It is a consideration that I have in my life, always wondering what is around the corner, what I can change for next year when what I should be doing is spending every single day loving my life.

I have an amazing life.

I am married, live and work in London and have the greatest group of friends that anyone could ask for, yet I do still desire things.

I look at the latest PlayStation VR, wondering if I could justify it when what I should be considering is today and what I have waiting for me back home.

Taking Things for Granted

We are all guilty of this.

Taking the lives that we lead for granted when what we should be doing is focusing on the essential elements that get us out…

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Ben Shelley

Someone who has no idea about where their place is in this world, yet enjoys writing about books, education, entertainment and videogames