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[descartes_rock]

If it weren't for my family, I would so be out of here. I would sell everything I own except for a few things I need to get by, and become totally rootless for a while. I would just drift, like a seed, without compass, waiting to see if any fertile ground presents itself. I would just keep drifting like that, on the wind. I would leave the western

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[westlinwind]

Yes. Just...yes.

[descartes_rock]

I'll let you know if it ever comes around. Maybe we can meet up somewhere in the jungle. :P

[descartes_rock]

Thanks. :P

If it ever happens, I will send you little gifts from the world, through the mail. A packet of salt from a Costa Rican soda. Some shells from Sanabel. One of those awful eiffel towers from that bridge in Paris. A baggie of sand from the Sahara...

[descartes_rock]

I love sand collections! I wish I had one.

[mardeen]

What delicious musings. I dream regularly about living off the grid in one way or another. Someone told me once, intending to be cruel, that I would have been a bag lady if not for him. Thing is, I suspect I might have been happier.

[descartes_rock]

I suspect we are all brainwashed to actually pursue a life that is not in our best interests. I mean think about it. What's the deal with work ambition? Why would anyone want to spend more time at work? Certainly not for the money. Most middle class people already have more money than they need. We can't possible want more junk in our lives. Our closets are already full of it -- to the point where we have to hire people to look after it anytime we spend more than 24 hours away from it. How many "mobile devices" can you stuff in your pocket anyway??? Then there are employees. Why would anyone want more of those? Anyone who has ever had to be responsible for someone else's work will know what a joy that is. Bigger projects maybe? That means more people leaning on us day and night, calling us on the weekends stressed that our projects are not on track. And anyway, those big projects mostly amount to nothing -- nobody even remembers them a year or two down the road. But just watch people fall all over themselves to get that promotion.