Can't You All Just Leave Me Alone

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I've never felt entitled to own a house, and it will be a loooong time before it's a feasible idea, anyway. There's one rule I've broken. Another is the credit card. Those things have always confused me. Spend money you don't have? Isn't that stealing? Ok, Ok. I know better, but really, if I can't pay now, what makes me think I can pay later? With the economy in the state it's been in, I've thought of these things alot. Why can't I go live an isolated life in a cabin in Alaska? Must I be a productive member of society? I posed this question to a co-worker once and he literally exclaimed his response of  "Are You KIDDING?" Why, of course. I'm totally just posing a hypothetical. I sat back down at my desk dutifully. I'm not talking about being a leech, just not having to do things just because it's what is done.

The irony is, if I was rich, I could afford to be counter-productive (according to whose standards?), buying a plot of land, building up a solar-powered cabin and purchasing some equipment to grow and harvest my own food. I would never have to deal with anyone i didn't want to. I wouldn't deal with any banks either. Banks drive me crazy. Who'd rob my isolated cabin, even with the money in my mattress? The only person outside of my dear family that i'd be obligated to see is the doctor i'd ship out to have a look at my daughter for check ups or if she was sick. So i'd have to get a plane or a boat, depending on the circumstances.I'd have to have a library as well. Oh, if only.