I just hope he does not end up 4 months from now on a corner in Vegas giving BJ's at 10 bucks a pop!:huh: :dead:

LOL!

You guys need to read more!

Hundreds of people already did what I'm planning to do.
You guys are to tied up on money that living without it seems impossible.
But remember, capitalism, fast food, carrers, ostentation, this is all 21th century inventions, and I really don't want that. People lived very happily before that.

Just stop and analise the world around you. Guys with BMW's, nice suits, running around like crazy, worried about tons of things, all the time talking in the cellphone. And on the other side of the sidewalk, a garbage man, talking to a hippie, both laughing a lot.

I'm not saying I want to be a garbage man, nor a hippie. I just don't want to be the man on the suit, so involved in a lot of stuff that he doesn't have time for himself. And with a live so dependent on money, that he actually believes that money is what brings happiness. He's already blind. The joy of live comes from new experiences, and this is the undeniable truth. How can one have new experiences working everyday with the same thing, on the same place, talking to the same people, returning to the same home, on the same car, to the same wife, to watch the same shows, and pay the same bills. Can you do that? Congrats! Cos that makes me just crazy. Feel like dying, and dying very fast. That's why people search for news everyday, something new, something that could change his/her live even just a bit. The joy of live comes from new experiences, and out there, where new experiences comes each and every second, I think I'll have a ball!

Once a dying man told me this, and I never forgot: "Life is a whisper... You come, tell a story, and disappear. What story will you tell?"... That really shoke me up. I want to have a nice story to tell. I want to, if that's the case, die with 35 years old and be able to tell that I had a awesome life, that I've seen it all, and that I'm really not sad of dying young.

New experiences don't need to be good experiences. ANY experiences. Live a life in porsue of that and I assure you, your live will be happy, and in the end you'll have tons of stories to tell.

Fair play to you Philipp good luck :up:

PT,i think that Contact said them all ! i think that you have to reconsider,

everybody had gone through difficult situations,this doesn't mean that you have to start running like Forest Camp.

if you like to communicate with a lot of people try find a job that have to trade with lots of people.job is something that give you sometimes (exept the money which is the main purpose) moments of hapiness ( in fact everything that you do in your whole life gives you only MOMENTS of hapiness.you see there is no man that is huppy ALL the time !....only crazy people are huppy always :lol:)

if you don't want family ...is ok ,you want to be by your own...is ok,you like travelling then you can do your travels in periods and i am sure you will enjoy them far more (its something else to travel always)

and remember ...there are always things in life to grab your interest ! (see... this community;)) don't blaim the job and don't expect always the job to get your attention .i agree with you that there are a lot of thing to grab you!

as CONTACT said........RELAAAAAX ! as YOU said......life is simple ( you make it complecated)
i hope that you will get logical ...soon
bye

Reconsider what?

This is not a overnight decision! I've planned this since february!

I want to be a writter, and so I need some living experience. I want to write a book about my travels, the daily journal, and another book, a romance, ficticious stuff, but based on all the stuff I learned.

From this 25 years of my existance I realised I was not borned to be living in society.

This thread is not a claim for help, for you guys to change my mind. This is goodbye!

Thank you for your numerous contributions and good luck to you in your journey. Try and stay a bit in Canada, the landscape lends itself to philosophy

Go for it PT!

I was 22 years old, just divorced, and needed something.
I chose to join the Army and jump out of AirCraft.
For several reasons actually.
But the primary reason was so I could go to Egypt!!
I got to go inside The Great Pyramid,
jump with the Egyption AirBorne,
have several lovely hikes across Barren Desert landscapes,
and more!

After I left the service I went 'walk about'.
(Except I used a '68 Triumph Motorcycle, so I guess that would be
ride about!)

Saw a lot of the U.S.A, Canada, and parts of Mexico.
Worked odd jobs just for enuff gas to make it down the road
a day or two.

I get asked sometimes if I regret those 'wasted years'.
My answer is always HELL NO!

When one gets the 'Wonder Lust?'
They have two choices.
Go! (Even if it's only for awhile)
or
Not! (Then, years down the road regret not doing it)

I'd much rather try and fail.
Then not try at all.
At lest I can always say I tried.

It's the things I did not try that I regret!

FINALLY SOMEONE THAT UNDERSTANDS ME! :rock:

Thanks Priv, fine words! :up:

May I pay you a visit someday, 5 years from now, and we can share some stories!

" remember, capitalism, fast food, carrers, ostentation, this is all 21th century inventions, and I really don't want that. People lived very happily before that. Just stop and analise the world around you. Guys with BMW's, nice suits, running around like crazy, worried about tons of things, all the time talking in the cellphone. And on the other side of the sidewalk, a garbage man, talking to a hippie, both laughing a lot."


PT, you remember me the movie Fight Club, have you never watched it? The dialog in the pub between Northon and Pitt is EXACTLY what you are saying... :up:

just to don't forget the Tyler Durden thought:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(film)



anyway, not all places are the same ...fast food??? where is fast food in Italy?? we don't have that!! Italians (and other Europeans, of course) eat in according to foods and food recipes invented hundreds and hundreds of years ago!! :yep: :p

I may not understand you PT.
But I understand fears.

I was afraid of heights before jumping out of an AirCraft in flight.
I was afraid of strangers before I met thousands of them
all over the World.
I was afraid of Snakes and still fear the sneaky Bastums!
LOL

None the less?

Always Welcome Mate.
:up:
Northern Ohio, U.S.A.

I love european style of living. I might end my life there, maybe in scothland! Endless greenfields, and nothing to worry about.

Wish I was coming with you PT!

Many people come to this kind of self questionning once in their life, moreover in our days and whatever the reasons.
Some of us plan to change everything but just a very few cross the line ... up to anyone, one's own choice but the big show of this World goes on, everyday.
Hope you will find your Heaven PT !

So long friendo

:up:

OK PT now you're changing the whole point of your journey. Noticing that ? First you said you wanna get out of civilization, since you're not happy about the society and stuff, now you're wanna smooth things down to one who just looks for an adventure and wants to write a book, how nice :lol:. Searching for the fools whos going to believe this crap yeah? So make up your mind for god sake and don't tell one thing, then think of another, just to change the whole subject, just to see how people react.. All I can say you're just not REAL man.
Just look at yourself. Complicated adventurer, *******in Dora the explora, who wants to die young, and I bet wants to be famous over the internet. You just can't live without paying attention to yourself do ya ? :lol:

The man who creates problems and then suddenly wonders where is the problem can't be treated seriously.

Yeah and rather then creating mods you should try to create a time machine. Maybe in medievals you'll find yourself a role of some kingdoms clown..

So am I buddy
;)

Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. Who knows? Answer? Not you. You weren't there.

You've seen The Matrix too many times. :lol: It's a good film, with a good point, but I'm wondering if you grabbed the wrong end of it. After all, you've never been that guy with the BMW and the cell phone.

*dons lecturer hat* :know:

Morpheus shows Neo that the world is a machine. People in the world are slaves to the system. Anyone in the system can become an "agent" i.e. anyone who puts the system above all else loses their humanity. Fair enough. You obviously get this bit loud and clear.

Morpheus also teaches Neo that if he believes in himself, and if he sees the system for what it really is (an illusion) then he can do anything he likes inside the machine. It's important to note that outside the system he's nothing - just flesh and blood, and no more or less than any other man. When you watch the film, which parts make you whoop and cheer? The parts where Neo is in the Real World, or the parts where Neo is kicking ass in the Matrix?

At the end Neo finds that can't do any of it alone. He needs Trinity. The purpose of the character called Cypher is to show us what happens to the Neos who don't find their Trinitys. If you're the romantic sort you can take that to mean that a man is nothing without a good woman, otherwise you can take in the more general sense that people need love (of whatever kind) from other people. Either way, it comes down to one thing: other people are both the reason and the ability to use the system to your own ends.

The next two films in the series are an overly-long discussion of free will vs purpose. Smith values purpose, Neo values freedom of choice. So, purpose is bad and free choice is good? Well, think about that suit you mentioned, running around babbling on his cellphone. What makes him so... energetic? Purpose. Just like Smith. So the suit is an agent of the system, right? Another plugged-in souless cog in the machine with no free will. Or is he? Did you ever think maybe he's Neo?

Here in the UK, not so long ago, two policemen watched someone drown to death because in the specific circumstances it would have been illegal to save the person's life. They are the agents/slaves to the system, and that is what the film is trying to warn you against. In my opinion, the film isn't trying to say "rise up and overthrow the system!" After all, everyone knows that the only result would be a new system. The film is trying to let you know that (a) it is a system - some people don't even realise that, and (b) you can beat it, use it, twist it to suit your purposes, but you don't have to be any more trapped by it than you want to be, and you should not sell your soul to it.

I bet that by now my patronising teacher babble is probably making your blood boil, but I must add one thing: another good film to watch, before you go, would be Fight Club. You'd like it, I think, if your homophobia can handle the gay subtext. ;) It's the same sort of thing but much better in some ways. It's also entirely metaphorical from start to finish, so put your thinking hat on and enjoy.

Back by popular demand.....
for now.

Play nice :yep:


RDP

This is the mind-set of BUDO. To be free of the own "I"

Kudos Phil! I wish you the best and may enlightenment find you.

The only thing you have to fear is fear itself. Go out and explore the world, accumulate life experiences, meet people, have fun. You're a long time dead so carpe diem.

As Robert Browning would say "I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize", and this is written on the back of Ernest Shackleton's grave.

If you don't have a "life's set prize"...go out and find one:up:

Ahh! My great, great Uncle had a way with words. ;)