On Going Indoors

Picture, if you will, a world in which no one went outside. When I refer to outside or outdoors, the inference is not the mere act of stepping out the door, but moving, doing, and existing outside. A meaning in which outdoors becomes a part of life; it is where we are, not just something we must survive to get to the nearest enclosure--shop, boutique, café, or office. Outdoors, in the sense …showed first 75 words of 822 total…

…showed last 75 words of 822 total…must also be kept up, or there will not be a world in which to escape when things get rough. Neither of these worlds should be denied or dismissed; nor should either dictatorially rule humanity. Either corrodes half of human nature, which produces an ill man and subsequently a sick society. Going indoors is not the problem, it is the never coming outdoors that leaves the world to the claws and teeth of the animals.