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The advantage of living in a small town

Many years ago a very wise person told me that eventually I would travel a lot and learn many things. He also told me never to forget where I came from, never to forget what was important in life.

At the time, I didn’t understand what he meant. I grew up and still lived in a small town in southeast Indiana. It seemed like something insignificant to me, the only things there were cornfields and basketball hoops.

There were very few of what we now consider the modern necessities of life, restaurants, theater, etc., the finer things in life. It took me several years to finally realize that this wise person was right.

Many say that people who live in small towns are narrow-minded, old-fashioned, stubborn, and many of the various negative traits we give to people who are different from us.

Having lived in both communities, big cities and small towns, I have found that no matter where you live or how you grow up, there are narrow-minded, stubborn people on both sides of the aisle, conservative or liberal, black, white. , man woman, rich, poor, it doesn’t matter. Often those who claim that someone else is narrow-minded is the one who is narrower-minded.

That being said, living in a small town has many advantages.

The most important things in life are the little things, and many believe that living in a small town is a small thing, the home of small minds.

Living in a small community naturally keeps you closer to the land, closer to nature. In this world, many adhere to the American Indian philosophy that we are missing out because people no longer live close to the land or nature. I believe this to be true, and it is terribly difficult, if not impossible, to live close to the earth when you live in a ten-story building in the middle of a big city, sure you can go to a park and mingle with a thousand other people, It’s not the same as being in the middle of nowhere.

The most important things in life are friends and family, and the moments we spend with them.

This culture is more likely to be cultivated in a smaller community, where people live close to each other and have time and really take the time to cultivate these relationships.

My high school graduating class had a total of fifty-three members. For the most part, we have stuck together over the years, even though many of us now live many miles apart in different areas of the country.

I still consider them some of my closest friends, that’s something most who grew up in larger communities can say, many don’t even remember a person or have seen them since they graduated high school.

While it’s true that we can and often do make friends along the way, they don’t replace those we grew up with and have the most connections with.

I still have lifelong friends in that little community even though I don’t go back there as much as I’d like. Regardless of when he entered Napoleon Tavern or the Osgood Grub Company, he would find friends for life.

That is priceless.

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