Live a perfect year and die?

You seem to be quite judgmental.

 

JimmyP and Franx144 congratulations. I have never seen a difference of opinion so far apart and have both people make valid points. Your both right, just depends on your situation.

 

My reality is checked, thank you.

I have met families traveling hardcore budget style with 3 kids under 5.

Your cost estimates are way off and show how out of touch you are.

Most of your "needs" are not really needs, those are just excuses you give yourself for why you "can't" live the life you want.

My parents are far from rich, I have made my own way in this world, thank you very much. Ask lode how much aid he got from his parents before he set off into the world and made a better life for himself. In fact, ask him to share his story - it is unique and inspiring.

Keep thinking you need that magical genie. When I left my country six years ago I was surprised no one had told me how easy it was. That is why I make it a point to tell as many people as I can that it is, in fact, tremendously easy. If you want to keep telling yourself it's so hard, and you just can't do it because this, that and the other, then feel free, by all means. It makes no matter to me if you are not satisfied with your life.

You are right about one thing, though - you can't always just suddenly up and decide, "I'm off to see the world." Especially in your situation (Though who did we agree, again, was responsible for getting into that situation in the first place..?) A bit of planning and saving is often required, especially if you've been frivolous up to this point (Which, if you have credit card bills, there is a good chance you have been.) But that is not the point. You seem to think it is impossible to live a great life and do as you wish unless you have a magical genie or a trust fund.

And that is wrong.

More erroneous notions, my friend. There are many ways to go about things - yes, if all you want is to bum around and do nothing for a while, then you must save up some funds beforehand. Though far less than what you probably think.

But if you are happy to put some effort into it and work, you could very easily go and travel the world for just about as long as you'd like. I remember one month where I spent a total of $60, and that was only because I insisted on buying some beers for some locals.

If you have obligations, then that could make it a bit more difficult - but what most people consider obligations are usually just excuses.

Luxury costs, an amazing experience does not.

 

Jimmy P where do you live?

 

On an island in Thailand.

 

Bump.

 

I think I'd pass


I'm not really a genie in a bottle kind of girl

Maybe if the stakes were lower, like I could take a year off from having to work full-time whilst enjoying my life without financial distress, but after a year I had to go back to work + financially support an entire third world village that has known none of my hedonistic pleasures due to constant insecurity with food/water/disease/birth-control/guerrillas etc

That'd be a better deal

 

I'd do it.

 

Right now? No. but get back to me in a couple decades because the answer will be yes. By the end of it, I hope to have brain damage, a shot to shit liver and to be head to toe with STD's. This way, i'd have nowhere else to go but death and I would be just fine with that.

 

wait, can you die during this perfect year or you're like immortal during it?

 

Nah, I wouldn't do it.
But if so, I would be allowed to walk into any pharmacy and take anything I want. I also would have a year stash of each drug (reefer, heroin, barbiturates, benzos, LSD, shrooms...) I also would have my own airplanes to fly around. And a yacht or houseboat to live in.

 

Honestly, I'd rather live one year of having a half-decent life in a normal body, than live 100 years similar to all the ones I've already had. Better one year of living, than 100 years of merely existing...

Or as The Cat in Red Dwarf once put it, "Better to live for one hour as a tiger, than a whole lifetime as a worm." xD

 

i don't know about you, but my perfect year would definitely not include dying.

 

Yeah, that dying part would be off the table

Hotwater

 

Nope. Wouldn't do it. Hopefully I still have some years left in me.
Funny that when I was young, my answer would probably have been yes to this. Now that I have children, I'd hate to miss out on their accomplishments.

 

i'd prefer to remain imperfectly alive by my own devising for many years, hopefullly at least another decade of still being as close to with it as i have ever been.

i've read somewhere that somewhere, i think it was eirland in druidic times, they were ruled by kings they would elect for one year, who could have or do anything they wished, for that year, but at the end of it, they would be killed.

 

WTF, why not , my life blows chunks away

 

i would do this, but ill say my perfect life is seeing the people i love happy, so i would want a never ending supply of millions than i would make accounts for them and they can only spend so much during each week, ill buy there house's, nothing flash just comfortable and pay all of there dept's under one condition a signed contract thy sign that they can not hire maids. still work at there jobs(unless they got terminally ill or retirement age of 50) and children are not spoiled to the extent they lose the importance of a dollar and no one will spurge on things they dont need. also i would make recordings for each of them, my last lecture hehehe...and when i die on new years eve, i would want to be with everyone i loved at the home i was raised in and we all having a party with a huge feed...ill go to my nanas bed she passed in and have photos of passed relatives and my best friend on the dressers. and then i would die in a drunk sleep hehehehe