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How much can you afford to lose? A piece of news I read recently: Some Chinese young people quit their jobs, even sold their houses for raising money to travel around the world. They bought a motor home and will use it to travel around the world for about 3 years. This is the general idea of the news. Apparently, these young guys all had good jobs before they quit them. That means, they are all well educated, have skills to make a living easily even if they will have to find jobs again 3 years later. They are not those people living at the foot of the social ladder. I guess this is the important key factor that supports them to make the big decisions. It's no doubt that they are very courageous. What I want to know is that for you, or me, for many people who are not the "elites" of this society, how much can we afford to lose to do what we want to do, to be what we want to be, to completely change our lives, for an unforeseen future or a certain reason which others may think it is silly enough? Do you have enough courage to change your life? I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight. ---- Rabindranath Tagore |
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I worked 28 yrs at a company, only a few years from Retirement, and they Outsourced me, with only being 10 months short of getting full benefits. I end up with only 1 year of medical/dental and 5 years of free travel. I relocated to where I am, I took a gamble and invested in trying to get a business going, It cost me greatly, I eventually lost 800K of property and used a great deal of reserves trying to build a business and the economy simply collapsed. Then being over 50+ people are reluctant to hire individual. Currently I work with gov programs, I successfully delivered a 2.6 mil program along with some other local programs, I;ve studied the Real Estate, Notary, Got food service certification and now I am monitoring high dollar programs. I still have my aims for business, and I am working to rebuild resources. I at one time had also two Porsche, Benz, BMW and Two bikes. Now I have one Benz and 2 bikes. I still have two houses, but I also have what I did not have before. I have bills, outside of mortgages. before I did not have bills other than mortgage and utilities, food and basic upkeep items. many thing change and will continue to change. many things change in value and the sense of value we have about things change. what we want changes, and what we put effort to pursue changes. some things have remained consistent, I still love to write, I still love business and the processes of business and the psychology of life and relationships. I still like the energy of life and the beauty of nature and the delightful wonders of female beauty and the reality of woman. i don't crave a mega sized house, I don't care if I have a new car, I care that I have a good car that suits me and my desire, I like good clothes, but I don't care if it has a popular brand label on it. I don't like the same junk food I use to eat,. I don't pursue being high on drink or substance, so doing things that distort my focus is not something I care for. I feel I understand more about how to honor the truth of God and Gods world, and I'm learning to accept that God loves us, rather than trying to put any ritual process in place to claim my love for God, I have to be more appreciative of Gods love for me. It makes a very big difference. I like seeing things in other places, but what I learned is, not to make any place a delusion of some overly romanticized concept, because every place it is always people, trying to live.... that sometimes is a hard less for people to learn who have a perpetual vacation mentality about the places they visit. I can generally settle in no matter where I go and get to realism that the place is still just people trying to live and doing so in their ways that make the work that supports their lives. I try continually to be aware not to take things nor people for granted, and each change and phase of living has brought many points of growth and awareness, and I look to many more wonderful experiences in learning to be aware and to appreciate what is .... the thing I've found that is common in many places, which is something that I have not grown any fonder of and still do not like, is : I do not like women to think men should fall all over himself and become ritual driven just to share time and experiences with them. And I don't like women who think men owe them something just for being with them. We get one time to life and no one can do everything, nor be everything and certainly there is no such things as 'anything goes"... because everything brings with it a set and circle of changes and within it comes some level of responsibility... there is nothing free ... everything brings some nature of responsibility.. or it will yield more consequences than one would care to engage and the responsibility to deal with, manage and resolve the sub-sequences, which may result to bring one's self a greater toll and quadruple the responsibility beyond what one tried first to avoid. when we try to be without responsibility. One will never be any more free than their responsibility can support them to be.
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