The Last Campfire

A short manifesto against soft pants and soulless coffee.

How comfortable is your life? Is it fluffy enough? You probably woke up today on a mattress loaded with springs, soft pads, unicorn hair, and mother's kisses. AI controlled blinds let the sunlight softly touch your skin. Wale sounds from the speaker have faded away. Then you pressed a button on a coffee maker. Oh wait, you could even programme your coffee machine to start automatically! Saved you an entire button press! Now you are planning how to invest your newly obtained wealth of 2 seconds of your life.

Then you slip into stretchy pants and glide into an office where the temperature’s tuned to divine precision.

That's the life, isn't it? Factory-assembled happiness in 10,000 easy payments. But does it make you happy?

When was the last time you got lost? Wandered so far you couldn’t find a way back. Not since the invention of GPS I suppose. Sure life has gotten so much better, we have all the advanced technology around us, which tells you what to do, turn by turn, step by step. But does it make you less of a human?

Let me share my recent story.

Seriously, why did people stop enjoying nature? Camping, listening to birds singing, or just walking in a forest.

I was riding around the UK for a week, hunting for hidden gems. In Scottish Highlands, I found a strange place on the map called “Wag o’ Forse” – just a couple of photos of rocks. That was enough. I headed straight in.