I felt this way for a few years – up until about a year ago when got a new job and moved from the suburbs San Diego. The changes opened up new avenues for me and I no longer feel trapped. I can identify a LOT with what you said about putting on a backpack and heading out to parts unkown. I’ve found that I have the most fun when I have a lot of free time that is unstructured. It is the structure of daily life that I find boring and uninspiring. I’ve also found that by living in the city, where you walk a lot more places, vs the suburbs you have a lot more normal type of existence. You just run into things as you walk and make plans as you go. The scheduled existence of suburban families, I think, is not healty. We are social animals and we are meant to live in villages and be together. I am rambling here but these are my thoughts. The other thing is, I’ve found that the simpler my life is and the less stuff I own the happier I am. I try and fill my time with experiences, not things.
