Direction in life...

[tullamore]

Anyone ever just think about packing up all their shit, getting rid of the cell phone and computer, and just disappearing for a while. I have a good live, have friends, a job and health. But I feel there just is something else out there, or I need some self evaluation in my life, and feel the only way I can get this is by just packing up.


Given serious consideration to just buying a one way plane ticket to somewhere. Have a EU passport, figured i can maybe just bum around, and find some odd work in some European countries.

 

[InTheHole]

There is nothing else out "there"...It's all here.

 

[tullamore]

There is nothing else out "there"...It's all here.

That may be true, but how did you find that out. There may be nothing else out there, but I cant take someone's elses word for that.

YOu can tell a little kid not to touch the stove because its hot, but until the kid touches the hot stove he wont understand.

 

[reno cool]

There is nothing else out "there"...It's all here.

Oh, I find that hard to believe.

 

[InTheHole]

Well, it comes from experience. Only reason to move is for a change in environment. For example, if you like the ocean than you will happier living by an ocean, etc.

It's about people and unless you live in the middle of no where, why remove yourself from what it is about. It's all about whats important to you but if your not finding it here, it will rarely be found there.

Life is what you make of it, for me it's about people. By relieving the suffering of others we relieve the suffering in ourselves.

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies?”

- Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

 

[Matty]

Do it tully.

 

[Matty]

ITH you make no sense. Only way to "remove yourself from it" is to commit suicide. There's people everywhere.

 

[Tron]

Tully, if it's any consolation, Bono and The Edge felt the same way sometimes.

 

[InTheHole]

ITH you make no sense. Only way to "remove yourself from it" is to commit suicide. There's people everywhere.

The implication from his post is that he is "figuratively"

"Anyone ever just think about packing up all their shit, getting rid of the cell phone and computer, and just disappearing for a while. I have a good live, have friends, a job and health. But I feel there just is something else out there, or I need some self evaluation in my life, and feel the only way I can get this is by just packing up."

I don't know this fellow but he has a lot invested in his current life. Ultimately, it is worthless or it is precious. The value is in the process and experience, not in the end result my friend.

 

[InTheHole]

Tully is having an existential moment, no need to worry about such things.

 

[InTheHole]

We are by our very nature social beings....to want to get away from that says something, what the meaning is really is up to the individual.

 

[Matty]

ITH you're a 5 dollar psychologist. Tully needs some fresh air is all.

The "value" is in not settling (out of laziness/apathy.)

 

[InTheHole]

ITH you're a 5 dollar psychologist. Tully needs some fresh air is all.

The "value" is in not settling (out of laziness/apathy.)

People who are happy don't need fresh air. If that was the case, I'd recommend he fukcin' join the Peace Corp.

 

[Jello]

Worked out well for this guy. They even made a movie about him.

 

[InTheHole]

Worked out well for this guy. They even made a movie about him.

Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968 – August 1992) was an American itinerant who adopted the name Alexander Supertramp and hiked into the Alaskan wilderness with little food and equipment, hoping to live a period of solitude. Almost four months later, weighing only 67 pounds (30 kg), he died of starvation near Denali National Park and Preserve

 

[RayRay]

dat nigga picked the wrong park to pimp in yo...

 

[Bread]

That movie sucked.

 

[betplom]

ITH you make no sense. Only way to "remove yourself from it" is to commit suicide. There's people everywhere.

Dumb Quebecer, have you ever been to Saskatchewan?