NAKED TRUTHS

The cloudy weather lately this summer has the nice effect of 
relatively warm nights. For much of the year I do my evening naked 
sprints up and down the long driveway, but the warmth allows the 
alternative option of comfortably going for a walk through the 
paddocks.

I like to be naked a lot of the time, including now as I type this, 
but there's a difference to going for a nude walk in a natural 
environment. Looking back at the dim glow of light spilling out 
from my house into the darkness, it inspires a special sort of 
perspective. Litterally stripped of all the trappings of 
civilisation, that little box seems like it might house another me, 
a constructed person belonging within the crafted illusion of 
civilised existance. Instead of him, the person, I'm just another 
creature out in nature, among countless others.

For that brief time out there it feels easier to appreciate the 
true motivations in life, how all that complexity of modern living 
grew up from the motivations of every naked animal subsisting in 
the wilderness. Survival and reproduction, the only natural 
objectives, have gone on over unknown generations to create the 
infinite variety of culture and science that seems, maybe even 
believes itself, to be separate from the core necessities of 
existance.

Personally I'm a bit of a miss for nature on the reproduction 
front, absolutely hating babies and children. Yet at the same time 
I wander along out there with genitals waggling and usually come to 
think of how nice it would be to have a woman with me, who for one 
thing could appreciate the same view of life, but who also wanted 
to cuddle up on a large sun-warmed rock and have sex. Maybe living 
in less modern times I'd have ended up with a woman, and been 
driven by desire to a distressed life of child raising in spite of 
my objections?

As it is I can appreciate how by whatever means I do it, somehow I 
survive well enough out here to go for such walks and enjoy the 
simple pleasure of being part of this world.

 - The Free Thinker