jr
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Surely there are more things needed than money
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Tiger
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Why should you decide what you want to do? Just let it happen.
Not referring to any individual person but I find people treat their lives with contempt, they think that this is like a practice go for some other life round the corner.
You live once, do what makes you happy coz if you dont you may look back and see you missed your chance and theres nothing worse in life than regret.
Personally, I have no savings and no pension. Simply because whenever I have more than about £4k saved up I go travelling with it because thats what makes me happy. Im very very sure that when my time is up, i'll be able to look back at what i've experienced and seen of the world and be happy, there will be no 'could of' or 'should haves'.
Live life and be happy, there is no other moral.
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Ojc
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Tiger is right, I find myself distancing myself from my friends more and more because from the age of 21 they have their life planned, girlfriend, mortgage, children, holidays to some crap Spanish resort, death.
Thats it, thats as far as they can see, they want to spend their life like that, I find them boring they have no intrest in anything other than talking about mortgages, its dull.
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Tiger
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Ill quote you something out of a book I've just finished reading called 'The Gringo Trail' by Mark Mann, it pretty much hits the nail on the head for my outlook on life:
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I couldnt get enthusiastic about a career and a pension. I wanted a spark of some kind, a crusade, an ideal. All around me, I saw a society that had lost sense of common purpose, of community. Where the future extended no further than next years balance sheet. An 'unnatural' society in a literal sense: where children grew up never having climbed a tree and unable to recognise the constellations. A materialstic society that had lost sight of the sheer joy of being alive, and replaced it with self assembly wardrobe units from IKEA.
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Ojc
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Originally posted by Tiger
Ill quote you something out of a book I've just finished reading called 'The Gringo Trail' by Mark Mann, it pretty much hits the nail on the head for my outlook on life:
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I couldnt get enthusiastic about a career and a pension. I wanted a spark of some kind, a crusade, an ideal. All around me, I saw a society that had lost sense of common purpose, of community. Where the future extended no further than next years balance sheet. An 'unnatural' society in a literal sense: where children grew up never having climbed a tree and unable to recognise the constellations. A materialstic society that had lost sight of the sheer joy of being alive, and replaced it with self assembly wardrobe units from IKEA.
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And that is exactly what my friends are, next year I plan to travel Europe for 3 weeks living out of a back pack, so looking forward to it. If I suggested to my friends to come along they would laugh and suggest going to Gran Canaria instead to get a tan 
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Tiger
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Just come NZ Ollie - im off next Wednesday for a year in NZ then upto 6 months elsewhere. Jacked my job in the other week, great having no more work for some time.
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Ojc
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I have commitments, I couldn't just do that.
The 3 weeks in Europe will give me a taste for living, I need to feel alive again like when I was at school and laughed every minute of everyday come rain or shine, snow or sleet.
I just want to feel alive again
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Tiger
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Commitments are draining too, sort em out 
[Edited on 23-10-2006 by Tiger]
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Ally
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I dont know, im 21 next year and in a way feel like somthings missing
Parents have offered to buy me a round the world plane ticket for my 21st, i want to go but have no one to go with and commitments
But want to sell my house, take the profits and fuck off for 6 months, then god knows what
Never gunna happen thou
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Tiger
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Originally posted by Ally
I dont know, im 21 next year and in a way feel like somthings missing
Parents have offered to buy me a round the world plane ticket for my 21st, i want to go but have no one to go with and commitments
But want to sell my house, take the profits and fuck off for 6 months, then god knows what
Never gunna happen thou
Why wont it happen? No-ones stopping you, the only person that can make it happen is you.
As for going on your own, why not? If you havent done anything like that on your own you wont know how much you might like it, I travel on my own and actually love it! It doesnt take long before you see the benefits.
Get the ticket, you dont get ofers like that everyday.
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Ian
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Everyone I know who has upped and left to go travelling says just do it.
There's nothing to stop you apart from the fact that you can't go RTW within the parameters of your current life.
Personally I wouldn't sell my comfy zone flat and give up my comfy zone job to get spotty and ill surrounded by strangers, but thats my comfy zone standpoint and I'm sticking to it.
My mates photographs were awesome 
[Edited on 23-10-2006 by Ian]
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Ally
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Ian, i think i just dont want to leave my comfy zone 
But everyone older than me keeps badgering me with the whole, u should go travelling, see the world and on my fed up of comfy zone days i do actually think i want to do it
im thinking 2 holidays next year, to places i would want to see whilst travelling, best of both world there, i can see the world and only temporarily leave the comfy zone 
im sure this post makes no sense...
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Ian
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No it makes plenty of sense. You can only do what you let yourself do, and it takes a certain amount of courage.
I have none, hence me having a mortage, an empty passport and no memories.
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Ally
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I couldnt go on my own because im not that brave, im plagued by the 'stories' you head on the news about girls who travelled alone and ended up raped and murdered on a beach somewhere
Id like to go to Mexico and America next year, gotta find someone to go with first
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Tiger
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Well, i've met hundreds of travellers and apart from the odd wallet being nicked there is no bad storys to speak of. There is more in my local town in terms of crime than I have ever heard in backpackers fables.
Sure there is a chance that anything could happen, you think Mexico is a safe place to travel? 
If as an individual you are more comfortable at home or having a 9-5 life than theres absolutely nothing wrong with that at all. Its whether you are happy. If you're not happy in what you do its something you should strive to discover.
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Tiger
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And, you dont have to be brave about going anywhere on your own, going on your own means that you can do strictly what you want to do, see what only you want to see, you dont have to cater for people with different opinions than you, there are no arguements, no disagreements on any specific activity, you're left to your own devices and its a great thing. Sure you meet people sooo easily and if you find someone on your travels that you really click with then stick with them until you either get bored of them or have to leave.
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antscorsa
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i think id love to go travelling and tiger you make it sound such a laugh.
my sis has been twioce and loved it but theres something thats just stoping me form doing the same, maybe its homesickness.
i know i coudlnt go alone but i dont know anyone that would go with me either.
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Ojc
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Originally posted by Tiger
And, you dont have to be brave about going anywhere on your own, going on your own means that you can do strictly what you want to do, see what only you want to see, you dont have to cater for people with different opinions than you, there are no arguements, no disagreements on any specific activity, you're left to your own devices and its a great thing. Sure you meet people sooo easily and if you find someone on your travels that you really click with then stick with them until you either get bored of them or have to leave.
You sound like me, but with the bottle to carry it through.
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Tiger
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Maybe because when I first went away I was with friends for the first 3 months, after I got a feel for it I went it alone and met soo many more people. Dont get me wrong, travelling with friends is brilliant, trouble is, when you are with even your friends for long periods it can get annoying, I know among my friends and I we had a few bust ups, Always worked out though.
Its a challenge but its definitly rewarding.
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Colin
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2 weeks away from home is enough for me to want back...I very much doubt I could handle traveling + I have my comfort zone, house, girlfriend etc....I wouldnt want to leave that!!
Work wise - After a trying a few different jobs from leaving school im still trying to get into where I want to be, im well on track for it now though so kind of happy I guess 
Lifes what you make it though...if it sucks then change it!!
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drax
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I find alot of people who go into uni have no idea what they want to be..
which is abit silly as they are specialising and narrowing themselfs constantly
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Colin
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Originally posted by Jambo
Im 23 and still have no idea, it gets scarier as you get older.
Need a better job, no idea what in. Do i go back and learn something at uni/college?
Makes me worried everyday
I felt like that the last 2 years sat behind a desk making some fat nob rich so I jacked it in & off to college to do what I wanted to doIts going well 6 weeks in, its great being a student, I get a loan, living expences, intrest free overdraft + perks from the bank, exempt council tax etc.........come June I will be applying for jobs again. Way I see it ive got another 40yrs working life in me ('If' I were to retire at 65), im hardly putting my life on hold doing this & all going well i'll be earning at 3x what I was before 
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Butler
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I want to do a course in motorsport design and management, but it means moving to wales and im not sure if its what i really want to do. Big gamble but thats what lifes about i think.
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stuartmitchell
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I just fell into my job, no idea when I applied for it or how I got it Always wanted to do HR though. Think I'll move to Kazakhstan when i'm 24 ish for a few years though
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Wrighty
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Originally posted by Tiger
Why should you decide what you want to do? Just let it happen.
a very good point...
i dont think i want to travel mind.
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