Is it just me or is there NO SHORTAGE of people buying in to the Materialistic American Dream (you've got to be asleep to believe it, remember?) and acting like Free People looking for/creating alternatives are just stuck in some adolescent fantasy. What's up with that bunk shit? It seems to me that they sold themselves short and want to feel good about it. { maybe I'm just feeling vulnerable, I just met an old friend who is kind of condescending to my plans of hiking in the North West while she lives the ol' straight and narrow!:H ...she IS compensated well and respected tho. } Not that anyone should care, I'm just sharing...
Home is where the heart is,, an babylon never can be escaped,, only altered.. sad but true.... An ours some would consider a fantasy.. An quite frankly,, tis there loss.. we just tryin to help folks lost in the cracks an crevices that is yer mindset...
It's the same ol same ol man... "Everybody is different". Some people love the idea of pursueing money, others pursue adventure, others pursue raising a family, others pursue minimalizm, etc. I'm sort of stuck in the "I don't know WTF I want" delima. All of my friends and family have no issues with my plans to travel the U.S. for a year, but they also know those plans involve a vehicle and that I will have money for gas, to eat on and get shelter if no camping is available. If my plans were to stuff a backpack and head off barefoot and broke, all of them would be thinking I had lost my mind. I obviosly don't know the extent of your plans, but if it's anywhere near the barefoot and broke idea, then you can expect most people to have a tough time understanding why. You can pretty much bet that you'll often be smelly, hungry, tired and just all around unsightly most of the time. How can you expect most people to understand that this is something you "need or want" to do.
Yeppers. You gotta be satisfied with your own way or alter it until you feel it works for you. Nobody here in their right mind wants to play "keeping up with the jones". I only know that kind of lifestyle of "American Dream" isn't as satisfiying as everyone who watches mainstream bastarized tv thinks it is. I personally don't think the "American dream" is to be in dept up to your eyeballs, have the biggest, etc etcs. yummy is so right even if this saying is clique-it still remains a real truth the average american has no idea how to live: walk your own path. Only you can do so, ONLY you.
dont get down on someone because thats the way they choose to live their life. you seem to be mad that your old friend didnt support your lifestyle, when your coming to the internet talking trash about a generalization of people who pursue the "american dream" true, some people will work in a corporate office, but lots of people do it to raise their children in a low-crime area and not have to struggle to make ends meet. you cant speak for everyone
