The Benefits to Living Off Grid: 4 Main Elements

The world you live in is one structured for long term commitment. The benefits to living off Grid revolve around circumventing that. Of course it’s not a necessity as some people enjoy the long term dedication to a life chained to the “all”.

All encompasses mainly the elite, the wealthy, the people of the world who hold the majority of the resources. Think about some of the commitments in everyday life. Most people have committed to loans of 30 years just so they could shelter their loved ones. Others to 3-7 years so they can transport those same loved ones as well as themselves to work, school, grocery stores, etc. There is an innate commitment to consumerism or the idea of buying things, not out of need but because those things exists for you to buy them. Let’s not forget about the commitment to work for a lifetime to reach retirement. This is all in the name of fitting in, getting by and making sure those elite stay wealthy beyond reach.

The benefits to living off grid is breaking the cycle.

Breaking The Cycle

Imagine getting married to the love of your life. You sign that contract to commit to that one person until death. Seems like a terribly long time to me but I digress. Afterwards you find a beautiful house in a beautiful neighborhood, there are nice schools in the surrounding area for future kids, a little yard… the works. You can’t afford the house because you make the average amount but you need somewhere to live. You buy the home signing a contract devoting 30 years of your life to it’s repayment. Sounds crazy I know.

It’s 25 years later, you have 2 beautiful children and everything is sensational. You have made steady payments on your house for the past 25 years and also have 2 cars that you upgraded multiple times so you are currently paying those off as well. After going in to work you find out they are laying people off. You get a message to go see your boss and are fired in a unceremonial fashion 2 months short of being able to retire with a pension.

Things suffer at home, due to the financial burden and stress. You grow forlorn. You are too close to retirement for anyone to hire you. You begin to grow distant from your spouse and children. Making ends meet is harder and harder and after a year you begin to miss payments on the house and cars. After making payments for 26 years without a hitch you miss 4 payments in a row and your house is foreclosed. The car is reposed while you are at the bank making your case, they can’t give you more time. You finally tell your spouse and they divorce you without fanfare.

Sad story I know. The moral of the story is being off the grid means you can break cycles like these. There are stories like this all over the world especially after the housing crisis and even more so during the quarantine. If you had a choice to alter the rules in effort to prevent things like this from coming to pass wouldn’t you. The cycle can be broken that is the benefit. Get yourself a fresh start, a new lease on life. Living off the Grid shows you there are other ways than the ones you were told about since birth.

Financial Freedom

You may never fully understand how impactful this benefit is until you have had the opportunity to experience it. Most people see financial freedom as being able to buy anything you want regardless of the cost. Or have enough money to do anything.

For me it means I can go decades without working and not have to worry about losing a thing. I own absolutely everything. Every car, every house, every plot of land. Every I buy is with my folding money. This is the Financial Freedom Ii’m talking about.

Think about this, if you made 1 million dollars every month but you have a winery and 7 mansions, a helicopter, 14 cars etc, you also pay for your parents home and a few partners you are fond of. If your bills are 350 thousand a month and your also spending money traveling for work and fine dining etc, you have about 2 months of wiggle room. Meaning, if you stop working for 3 months things will start getting scary fast. That 4th month will be savings, if you saved and when that runs out banks and companies will start taking their things back. Furniture, vehicles, houses etc.

This should go to show making or having a lot of money isn’t financial freedom if you don’t own everything outright.

Time

This concept is interesting, because it has been proven that time doesn’t exist not in he way it is instilled about people since birth using watches, calendars, work days et. Einstein prove that time is relative to your frame a reference. If someone was underwater 5 minutes would be a lifetime while they were drowning but the last 5 minutes with a loved one before passing would go in an instant. However, I will reference time as you know it for this excerpt.

No one knows what freedom is until they have copious amounts of time to think, act and absorb everything around them. It’s limitless. Your mind will open up to things you enjoyed before the rat race, you will find a new direction, you may begin to create and learn things about yourself. The benefit of time is priceless.

When your in society there is no frame of reference. The time of day is plastered everywhere. There are 4 alarms to coax you into waking blaring sounds and the time on each occasion. You have to be at work before this time, while leaving your house at this time to make sure you are not late. You sit in traffic for a bit with the time stares you in the face. After arriving at work there are set times for lunch and the end of the day. This is just an example of how obstructed the mind is with this unending cycle of doom.

Being off the grid changes that. You have to make the effort to break the cycle and life off the grid will do the rest.

Space

There is nothing like the great space of being unshackled from the life you knew. Being able to move freely on a whim without concerns that you are encroaching on someone else.

Space is it’s own type of freedom. This is doubly so if you live in a complex some kind or a subdivision with cookie cutter houses in all directions. Off the grid living allows you to choose where you want to be. You can pick a mountain top away from the rest of the world, or a 30 minute drive from the closest town. You can even choose to live in house that can move on a whim to whatever space you seek. Giving you freedom when you want and taking you back to familiar surroundings when that need arises.

There is also that great space of the outdoors and nature. Something you may not have experienced fully throughout your lifetime. This can be permanent, not just a holiday, not just a vacation, something that will lasts forever and that is what living off grid is all about.