Adam Lind
Adam Lind is a writer and poet who chose to leave everyday comfort for a simpler life close to nature. In this honest conversation he describes the moment that made him change ever...
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Who are you?
I am Adam Lind. I am an author, content creator and mental health advocate, as well as a vulnerable, curious human connection seeker.
Was there a moment that tipped the scale and made you change everything?
The real turning point in my life was when I was 17, I lost my father to alcoholism. And it was through the grieving process when there was a veil that was lifted away from my eyes about society. And I was observing all these people around me work jobs that they weren't enjoying, waking up each day, not really happy about what they were doing. And I was left there as a teenager with this idea of this existentialism of where has my father gone and what's the point or purpose of any of this? And it was in that moment I vowed to myself that I'm only going to live a life that I feel serves me and feels meaningful and purposeful to me. So yeah, from the age of 17, I decided that the constructs or illusion of society just weren't made for me anymore.
Was there a moment where you realised something in your life wasn’t working anymore?
So I met my wife 12 years ago and we were 19 at university. And when we graduated, we decided to take this trip where we booked a 10 pound bus from London to Amsterdam. We just had a backpack and a tent, and we didn't know how long we were going to go for. And we decided to embark on this journey where we were going to try and hitchhike from Amsterdam to India. So we didn't want to use an aeroplane, a train, or a bus, and we just wanted to rely on the kindness of strangers to take us. And we had over a thousand rides of all these different people. We really learned the idea of human connection. But as part of this journey, I felt like I'd found freedom externally. We were living every day so freely we could do what we want. We had the gift of time, but there came a moment where I started to notice patterns I'd had as a child to do with my mental health and to do with intrusive thoughts and OCD patterns. And it was in that moment I realised that having freedom externally counts for nothing if you don't have freedom internally. So yeah, this journey I was on to find freedom outside of myself just led me all the way back to realise I need to focus on what's going on in here. Otherwise, I was never going to be free.