Ive been doing this now for just about 10 years, building buses getting people together showing folk how easy things can work if we do things together.... Every time I do this, I deal with the regular shit, I mean apart from slaving my ass off at some job raising the money to get the buses going, apart from the personal sacrifices I make in my life so this "community" will continue man its just the drama that gets me. if its not one person bitching about the little fucking work they have to do its another bitching about things that didnt go their way I mean you know that old saying you cant please all the people all the time? Man Im tired of trying to please anyone. I beleive in what Im doing, I love when the tribe gets going and we pull together and over come, I love when the journeys done, looking back at the massive amount of miles we did.... but what really am I doing? am I making memories for other folk, for myself? am I creating a great change to better the world? or am I just causing one big headache for myself? well I mean I guess its all of the above, I do think its worth it, Im just wearing out. I figure one of these days Ill find a cat or cats who'll be able to keep this thing going, everytime I give my bus away, the tribe dissolves a week or so after I leave..... well theres my rant of the day.....
sounds like you just need to be more picky about who you give your bus too... make them apprentice under you for at least a couple of years and kind of back off giving them responsibility on your bus before you give it to them to make sure they can hold a group together.
on my first bus, I wrote on the side to those who dream let them awake in their dreams, to those who live, let them dream thanks for your words folks......
i would hope its worth it i have had intrests in comunal living because i have always thought that it could somehow better everyone living there thats why i think i have always prefered the communal enviorment of the dorms over and apartment. However when i saught to share communaly my room and things (wehat little i had) during my first year. I found that people where more concerend with ThemSelves and what They could get. instead of having a vested intrest in the community
and isnt that the problem? people who get involved if not outwardly by selfesh means , inwardly and eventually outwardly think and act only toward themselves and not the community.... but not always, and I think thats why it is worth it. I was having a long tiring day, Im not going to stop this ....I was just really tired, and putting things in a depressing fatalist state of mind.....
