Now, where are you?

In the middle of the desert, it's a little hard to do some of the basic things - walk for any distance, drink water, cook a meal, and orient yourself as to where you are headed.

People don't live in the desert for those reasons.  People live where there is food and water aplenty, they can easily get to places they need to go for shopping, work, and play, and can establish themselves in their work and avocations.   I have to admit that I have ended up in a place where all of the ingredients for living a full and more-than-adequate life exist everywhere around me.

But, being here is paradoxical like being alone in a crowd or being thirsty in the middle of the ocean.  Why, you say?  I'm in the middle of the desert where it's a little hard to do basic things...