2025 Silly Season

Keshav said:

Well - for those who cling to the easy comfort of middle class conformity and the tribal vacuum of socially acceptable western conventionalities - it’s easy to understand why they get disturbed by the idea of the road less traveled. I suppose it can seem threatening when someone with wealth and privilege that most people aspire to, turns their back on materialistic values, because the average person rarely steps outside their comfort zone to question their entrenched imperatives. It’s so much easier to just go along with the rest of the sheep.

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BTW - I apologize if that came off as snooty or elitist. The decisions people make to live the life of their choice that makes them truly happy, are ones that largely serve the general order of things. Not everyone can, or even wants to be Hemmingway or Thor Heyerdahl or Sid Vicious. I've known guys who gave up high paying jobs in finance to take up landscaping, or working as a sous chef, or a dog trainer because that was what made them feel fulfilled.

Many of the "fellow travelers" I met while living in India, fell into the category of "those that seek, but rarely find". Many were deluded and never stopped seeing life through rose tinted glasses. But I always give them credit for at least breaking away from the mainstream to take risks, to not spend their entire existence "staring down the barrel of a normal life" (Yes it is a misquote from the Police song".

Keshav said:

to not spend their entire existence "staring down the barrel of a normal life".

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I actually like my normal life, but to each his own !

A good destination for him would be Goa

Keshav said:

BTW - I apologize if that came off as snooty or elitist. The decisions people make to live the life of their choice that makes them truly happy, are ones that largely serve the general order of things. Not everyone can, or even wants to be Hemmingway or Thor Heyerdahl or Sid Vicious. I've known guys who gave up high paying jobs in finance to take up landscaping, or working as a sous chef, or a dog trainer because that was what made them feel fulfilled.

Many of the "fellow travelers" I met while living in India, fell into the category of "those that seek, but rarely find". Many were deluded and never stopped seeing life through rose tinted glasses. But I always give them credit for at least breaking away from the mainstream to take risks, to not spend their entire existence "staring down the barrel of a normal life" (Yes it is a misquote from the Police song".

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I live the 'normal life' and existence, at least at the moment due to multiple factors some within and some outside of my control, existence is the right word for what I feel I am doing right now. Moving to India, or another country to seek meaning or whatever is not something I would do and I have scarified and worked hard(ish) to get what little I have, which is more than a lot of people in the world, but I also know that I am not particularly happy.

p4p1 said:

but I also know that I am not particularly happy.

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We seem to have a knack for making life difficult, and people unhappy, in our Western nations, I don't know why !