Balanced Existence

About a month ago I set out by myself for a property in a very isolated part of the country. The closest neighbor is at least 5km away and there is nothing but forest and wild animals including packs of dingoes and pigs. Essentially I went into the wild. It was a twelve-hour drive from where I live in Sydney just to get there. I didn’t have any sort of plan of what I was going to do there or even why I was going except that I had been going flat out for the previous 15 or so months and I felt like it was time for some isolation in nature to recharge.

When I was twenty I ended up with chronic fatigue and lost the job I had worked hard all through high school to get along with about 30kg. At the time I was also attending university. Both my career and studies came to a grinding halt. It took two long years to get out of the deep black hole of fatigue I ended up in. In many respects I have these experiences to thank for the fact that health and wellbeing have become the absolute top priorities of my life. I’ve learnt from painful experience that without your health you have nothing. If good health is yours anything is possible. Amazingly the journey back up after being struck down by chronic fatigue has taken me places and opened up opportunities that I never imagined possible.