well, you certainly are an educated person. I'll try to get to everything you said in that whopper of a paragraph without trying to make this an argument.

Well the main point, social acceptance, is close to the problem. It's not that I have a hard time making friends, I can be a pretty likable guy, I'm just a bit of a cynic and judge people critically. I do have a good group of very close friends, but it's small and quite diverse.

My main reason I really want to do this is I've always, since being 5 or so, have loved the idea of a mountain man living in a cabin in the woods. it just seems... good, better. Lovely nature all around, endless exploring, and never really boredom.

The hard work part? Man I know that one well already. Nothing at all whatsoever comes without hard work. Hard Hard Hard work, and I accept that. I'd be willing to work pretty damn hard for a life in the woods. chop wood for four hours a day, spend a straight 14 hours tracking a deer just to lose it, spend an hour searching for one drink of water. I'm ready for that.

I figure maybe abandoning civilization is taking it a little over the top, I'll rethink that part. maybe just try hard to get a nice cabin to me and my girl (year and a half and going strong) and a good dog, then spend a few weeks every few months on a good camping trip.

And, since you seem quite interesting/polite, I don't want to see this turn into a web argument, I will go start a garden because I wanna grow me some mo'fuckin petunias!

thank you for not instantly going straight to sarcasm and actually taking time to create a logical, interesting point of view.