SHOCKING! A 38 Year Old Man Has Been Living Without Technology For 3 Years
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Mark Boyle hasnt switched on a light, used a washing machine, boiled with a kettle,turned on the over or vacuumed for three years.
In 2016, he decided to live a life free of technology, so he cancelled his accounts both social media and bank accounts and moved to a log cabin where he likes to while away the dark winter evenings making love on the sheepskin rug in front of his cosy log burner.
Mark Boyle is a 38, darkly bearded, with a soft Irish lilt and is really rather handsome.
Mark wrote a book during his time away titled"The Way Home: Tales From A Life Without Technology." about his experiences wi8thout technology.
After some snail mail correspondence, Mark met Jane fryer. Since Boyle has no clocks or a watch, they met by two.
Boyle has a honours degree in Marketing and used to be a manager in an organic food firm in Bristol. He had simply just had enough.
He's 'The impact our way of life was having — industrialism wiping out life on earth, oceans filled with plastic, forests felled,' he says. 'We've lost 60 per cent of wildlife in the past 50 years. I wanted to go back to how life had been.'
Because of his decision, his girlfriend left him after going on a musical tour. She decided the log cabin life was not for her.
He says 'I've gained self-knowledge,' he says. 'I know my limits and I've a real connection to the landscape and people around me.'
His life as changes because all he has to think about is to find food, fire, and shelter instead of the things that plagued when he still with society.
His house gets light from lamps and candles and he has no toilet only uses either a tree or a compost loo nearby and washes with water boiled on the stove.
Although it takes the time he couldn't care less.Other than chopping wood, making a fire and ensuring he has enough to eat, there is nothing else he does.
He has discovered that he would still be able to do this at the age of 75 because: "I think you become fit from this lifestyle, so I'll just keep building up the physical strength,' he says. 'I already feel less tired.'
His meals consist of Oatmeal for breakfast and fresh spring water to drink, home-baked bread for lunch with jam, and potatoes and greens the rest of the time.
Whenever he feels he is in need of protein he'll knock back a glass of fish blood, or swallow a couple of raw eggs, but mostly it's just potatoes and greens. He hasn't visited a doctor for nearly 20 years.
Although he was very into technology while growing he can see himself not going into the city again. He met his recent girlfriend while he was teaching a class and he goes to visit her every week.
He also still communicates with his parents and they have been unfailingly supportive and they visit every week.
He can't remember the last time he went to the dentist and thinks if he had terrible toothache he'd probably whip the offending tooth out himself.
He had once tried to walk to India but his lack of french and money stopped him.
'I don't mind trying and failing,' he says. 'I'd just hate not to try.'
Mark's life seems selfless, but in others, a teeny bit selfish stepping away from problems that the rest of us have to carry on wrestling with.
He also says he is never lonely. Instead of choosing to live in splendid isolation, there are other houses nearby with electricity.
He walks the hour or so to a pub for a traditional music night each week, or a pint with friends. Everyone in the local community drops round to give him road-kill, old deer skins and DIY advice.
There is also a steady stream of visitors to his log cabin. Because, rather surprisingly, he has also built the Happy Pig, a cosy hostel (with power), on his land, which is free to all but not advertised anywhere.
'If you can find it, you can stay,' he says, though he insists he never pops in for a cuppa or have a hot shower, but does use the compost loo.
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But he wouldn't change a thing.
'This is the worst time of year remember,' he says. 'And I'm still here!' Even better, he says, he's discovered his life's purpose.
'To be alive! To experience life in all its magic. Because life is precious, full of wonders — the stars, the extent of the universe, nature, and we're often too busy to appreciate it,' he says.
'There's all this talk of saving the world, but we need to stop and savour it, too.'
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