Imagine this. It's a warm summer morning—5 AM—and you awake in the overcab bed. It’s a new day, and with it comes hunger. You hop down and crack open the small storage box tucked away in the corner of your autocamper. Inside are your fresh clothes, which you set aside for later. You decide to cook something before heading out for the day, so you rummage through the small ice-box and take out your carton of eggs and the fish you caught the day prior. With these ingredients, you toss them onto the pan set atop the portable camping gas-cooker and make an omelette, watching the morning sun rise from beneath the darkness through the small window, which you cracked open not moments prior. The smell of your own caught fish alone making your hunger seem all the more amplified. The hot air from the pan seeping out the open window.
Once you’ve had your fill, you check the clock—5:30 AM. Perfect. After a quick stretch and a brisk change of seats, you’re on the road, heading toward the most essential trip of the week. You pull up beside the nearest, clearest lake. The crackling of stones and the wet moist grass slushing under the tires greet you as you park. The morning call of songbirds fills your ears, just as the newfound sunlight fills your eyes through the windshield. You grab your basket of filthy clothes, an empty 20L bottle, and a small container of soap from the countertop before stepping out into the sharp sun, which is now up as if to creep up on the majority of fellow man. You fill the jug and put it aside for later purification over a campfire or stove. As you do this, your eye catches a young doe. Feeding from the grass at the other end of the lake behind a wall of foliage, experiencing the same morning as yourself through a different set of eyes. With the clothes and soap in hand, you begin to scrub. It’s uneventful, but it’s for your own good, you think, as you lay the sopping wet clothing onto the roof of the camper to dry. “Now, about time,” you finally think in anticipation. With a sharp dive and a quick shake to get comfortable with the newfound temperature, you begin washing yourself. Not a care in the world.
After an hour of swimming about, soaking in the morning sky, breathing the crisp cool air, and basking in the refreshing water as it penetrates the crevices of your face, you exit, now clean and washed. Foolishly, you’ve forgotten the change of clothes and a towel, but no matter—in a moment’s notice you dart in and out with them in hand. Done. You are clean and free to pursue the rest of the day as you see fit. And would you look at that. It’s only 7:30! Will you sit on the wet moist grass, toes in the water, writing your thoughts into a journal? Will you read? Will you grab your fishing rod and make use of the time before those in local fishing clubs catch you stealing their feast without a license? Will you cook and store away foodstuff for future hunger? Or will you simply smile in return for the gifts given to you by the Lord? That is for you to decide. For you are not bound by the restrictions of others, neither their opinions, nor their time, nor their work. Bliss.