maybe you'll pay taxes, maybe you won't. but there's those of us who did so much travelling in our early years that there's nothing more we want to do than to settle in one spot. i've never lived anywhere long enough to put down some roots and interact closely within a community. i've been a gyspsy most of my life and many of my relationships reflect that. i'm not sure i want that for my daughters.
I suppose your daughters will have to choose. What im saying is-give them the option. Let them know the world is theirs. Then, theyre free to make mistakes, and learn from them. Which is what they were put here for in the first place
oh, of course! dave and i wish nothing more than to prepare our daughters to be independent and free to go wherever they're called to go. but i'm going to give them a home base. that's very important to me. i'd always wished i'd had a little patchof earth to call home, a place to go back to at the end of the trip....now i have the theme song to Cheers stuck in my head....
Being proud of your culture isnt the same as patrionism. patrionism is thinking of your culture/country as being superisor to others. 'The workers have no homeland.'-Karl Marx
now we're just talking semantics. patriotism n : love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it i think that's what i got, and i don't really feel bad about that.
"i've been a gyspsy most of my life and many of my relationships reflect that. i'm not sure i want that for my daughters." Didn't they make a book, which was then adapted into a movie about this? I don't think you're that old. At your age, my parents were still travelling. When they had my sibling and me, we went travelling again. I've done a fair amount of travelling now, and I have no desire to settle down. But, to each his own. Even if I did settle down, I don't think I'd be patriotic. Perhaps it isn't so much patriotism that is bad, but BLIND patriotism. Either way, I don't consider myself a patriot.
I pledge allegiance to the Earth and to all the life that it sustains. One planet, in our care, irreplaceable with sustenance and respect for all. (my friend Lucy, on another forum)
well, it really is. my daughter has been dragged to so many new places and has already exhibited a limited ability to attach and interact. i want her to know what a community is, like her dad does. i really feel i missed out on something.
