City Life vs. Country Life

        I can't believe it has been almost 4 days since I wrote in my blog. Oh! wait! yes I can. It has been a busy a stressful four days. It has also been uncertain for me. You know when you have all these crazy thoughts but yet you have no idea how you are going to make time for everything that goes into those thoughts? That is me right now and will be in the next week or possibly two months since it is the Holiday season now.
        I believe that God has been showing me a lot about my path and my future. I hate when I think about those two things but every once in awhile those are things we need to think about even if we love where we are in life right now. I've been thinking about it in a crazy, yet possible, way. For me, right now, it is this battle in my heart of city life vs. country life. For most of you who know me, you know I am country life all the way. Even my personality is country lifestyle. I'm the easygoing, laid-back, outdoorsy, don't care type of girl so busy things annoy me.
        God gave me a moment this past week when I heard Him say "Stop and listen" and it felt like no one else was around me and that one person I was listening to. People have been hard on me about how I have good listening skills and how I need a job to use those skills. Since they have been talking about it I have been paying more attention to why I don't listen to people and it all comes down to the city life. The city life is too busy and rushed for me. Seems like everything has to be done and done now. No one gets a break from anything. It is a coffee stop for a hour until that person has to be somewhere. It is I have to hurry up and get this done. It is a lot more things that I have grown into the past 3 years and honestly I don't like it.
          I really do believe that God gave me the personality to live out in the country where it is calm and quite. Where people know everyone because they take the time to know them. They go for walks in the outdoors or spend time in the woods together, yes I'll say it, hunting. They spend time in God's Creation and listen to God while they are spending time there. They are seeing signs of Him everywhere whether you live on a farm or just go hang out at a park. You learn to slow down and take each moment in because it is important even with family. Those type of people just seem to be more encouraging too because they take the time to slow down and see people that needs it.
          Country people really take the time to process things slowly and they can because people don't mind it. When you have to make the choice in a couple of days it is stressful. There is this wide open space that you can spend time in and enjoy by yourself in your pjs. Where in the city you are even scared to go running in your running clothes because someone might see you. You have to have the latest style running clothes which just cost more money that could go to something more meaningful. In the city, you are also closed in either in an apartment or in little neighborhoods.
          Another thing is that country people seems to be more closer to each other which is strange because they live so far away. Yet, churches, shops, schools and other things are so small so you know everyone there. You spend more time when you do see them because you know it might be awhile until you are up that way again. They have to make a certain time to see each other because it takes forever to get to just one place.
           Just to make it clear I'm not pointing any fingers or thinking about anyone while writing. I'm just writing the differences for myself and seeing for myself why I always keep going back to the country when the city annoys me. Why can't I handle the city stress? Oh! wait! it was because I was raise in the country and a small town all of my life. It is what I am use to and I'm not good at changing my ways and I won't to be honest. I still dream of living out in the country someday whether by myself or with someone. I want some land with a stream running through it that my children can play on. I want farm animals that they can help with.
           It just goes to show that city and country life are two different small cultures in a world of bigger cultures but we never take the time to see it that way.