As you may have guessed, dearest facepunch member, by the Question tag i have chosen to adorn my humble thread with that this is a question thread and with that being so i would very much enjoy and appreciate reading your well thought out and no doubt insightful contribution. That being said, i ask you with the utmost respect to think deeply and to take into account all of the information i give before replying as none of it will be irrelevant to the question posed.
Firstly, i will tell you a little about myself to help you understand my feelings and hopefully derive an acceptable understanding of my position as well as my reasoning for asking my question.
I am eighteen years old and male. I am unemployed. I am healthy. I am of average intellect. I am aware of my ignorance. I have a romanticised view of life due to literature, movies, videogames and music. I am idealistic. I am currently living in a one bedroom council house in Glasgow with a girl i don't particularly like, with the goal of becoming employed and living a mediocre life, aspiring no further than furnishing my house with expensive time killing items and one day raising a family.
Due to my love of storys and impressionable nature, a seed of adventure has been planted in me. My impressionable nature, however, is not wholly to blame. Let me try to explain. As i sat here an hour ago in Gamerbase, surrounded by people of all ages staring into their screens it struck me that we sacrifice adventure, excitement and uncertainty for safety and the banality of every day life. We have all heard of this path - school, degree, good job, money, house, family, old age and finally death. This sounds morbid and boring when listed like this which isn't my intention. My intention with that description of an acceptable path of life is to illustrate how little we experience or learn differently from our previous generation.
I feel as if i'm deviating from my question now so i'll give you an example in the synopsis of As i walked out one midsummer morning by Laurie Lee, whose fantastic life/adventure inspired me to make this thread.
In 1934 Laurie Lee leaves his home in Slad, Gloucestershire, for London, one hundred miles away.
It was a bright Sunday morning in early June, the right time to be leaving home...I was nineteen years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. Never having seen the sea before, he decides he will go by way of Southampton though it will add another hundred miles to his journey. He begins to walk towards the Wiltshire Downs on country roads that
" ... still followed their original tracks, drawn by packhorse or lumbering cartwheel, hugging the curve of a valley or yielding to a promontory like the wandering line of a stream. It was not, after all, so very long ago, but no one could make that journey today. Most of the old roads have gone, and the motor car, since then, has begun to cut the landscape to pieces, through which the hunched-up traveller races at gutter height, seeing less than a dog in the ditch. "
Lee eventually ends up in Spain armed only with his violin and a 'confident belief in good fortune' falls in love, has a fantastic life, none of which he would have had, had he decided to marry and settle in his town in Gloucestershire. (at least, with less adventure and awesome times and lessons learned first hand)
On Lauries first night away from home he sleeps under the stars in a field and awakes feeling truly dejected, soaked through from rain feeling like a fool and contemplating heading back home. No doubt by now you can see where i'm going with this but i thought i should add in that little bit so you know that i'm not completely deluded and think that life will be easy comfortable street should i choose to abscond from my currant one.
Which brings me to my questions, should i wing it and travel? If not, why not? How did this thread make you feel? and finally, do you feel like exploring?
You are so British you shit the queen
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Glasgow is in Scotland :eng101:
Moving on. I think you should definitely wing it.
Potentially better than my plan, join the Marines, go infantry, see what happens.
The way you talk is really annoying
[QUOTE=Sitkero;21120177]Glasgow is in Scotland :eng101:
Moving on. I think you should definitely wing it.
Potentially better than my plan, join the Marines, go infantry, see what happens.[/QUOTE]
infantry, scary.
i think my plan is potentially better than dieing in a trench for an unworthy cause
[QUOTE=L34rn;21120324]infantry, scary.
i think my plan is potentially better than dieing in a trench for an unworthy cause[/QUOTE]
I agree.
I think you should get a bike, and travel across the world doing odd jobs. Maybe you will become a wise sage, or maybe you'll become a daring rogue. Who knows.
[QUOTE=Reborn9;21120410]I agree.
I think you should get a bike, and travel across the world doing odd jobs. Maybe you will become a wise sage, or maybe you'll become a daring rogue. Who knows.[/QUOTE]
man, thanks. both sound awesome. i want to see life like a game you know? i just keep asking myself 'why not'
OP's avatar bugs me for some reason. But hey, go travel. You're in your prime years, and you might find something/someone you really like.
I really don't get what the fuck OP is talking about.
Despite the fact it was written in stupid which I'm fluent in.
Travel around for a little while to see if you like it; if you do, then carry on and settle somewhere nice when you're older.
Capitalize your "I"s man.
Go work at a hotdog stand and then come back here and tell your story
[QUOTE=Archy;21122398]Go work at a hotdog stand and then come back here and tell your story[/QUOTE]
No hotdog stands in Britain... He should go work in starbucks.
it sounds both fun and terrible, i say go for it, but make sure you have something to come back to.
I was amazed to read your thread. That is because I am having those the same feelings as you and probably millions of others :D I encourage you to live by your heart. Let your inspired heart take you to the adventures that lie ahead. Go to show you never can tell. Human brain is easily led into accepting the comfortable and disdaining the dangerous, exiting - adventure. Your life is a song written by you. What kind of song do you want? Exhiliriating, joyous, dull, groovy, fearful, awful, sexy or what? You decide. It is always harder to take the path of an adventurer because it means a harder life but the price is beyond your wildest dreams if you succeed. I hope that you let your heart decide to walk into the mosaic of this world with only your instincs, dreams, hopes, longings, smiles, laughs, jokes guiding you. Leave the old world behind. Accept the new.
-A fellow wanderer
[QUOTE=Kelju;21128964]I was amazed to read your thread. That is because I am having those the same feelings as you and probably millions of others :D I encourage you to live by your heart. Let your inspired heart take you to the adventures that lie ahead. Go to show you never can tell. Human brain is easily led into accepting the comfortable and disdaining the dangerous, exiting - adventure. Your life is a song written by you. What kind of song do you want? Exhiliriating, joyous, dull, groovy, fearful, awful, sexy or what? You decide. It is always harder to take the path of an adventurer because it means a harder life but the price is beyond your wildest dreams if you succeed. I hope that you let your heart decide to walk into the mosaic of this world with only your instincs, dreams, hopes, longings, smiles, laughs, jokes guiding you. Leave the old world behind. Accept the new.
-A fellow wanderer[/QUOTE]
Kelju, it means an awful lot to me that you decided to post your feelings, i really appreciate it, especially in the poetic way that you did. I've started to carry around a little notebook in which i jot down noteworthy happenings from each day, i'm going to copy out what you've written and take it with me, sincerely thank you.
You pretty cool mang
You should get a motorbike, international passport, get a laptop, and a internet job. Drive around going around doing fun stuff, and after 10 years then choose to be a archaeologist. (they do lots of crazzzyyy stuff.)
I recommend travel when you are young. When they look back, people always seem to value experiences they have had (such as travel) over possessions they have bought. You may not have time / money for travel when you are older and have more responsibilities. Also you may lose career opportunities once you start a career if you interrupt it for travel. So yes, do it now, but before you go, get some experience in some trades you can ply along the way to earn your supper (offer to do work experience for no pay if needs be eg fruit picking, farm, pub / restaurant anything where the industry is all over the world and you don't have to be fluent in the language - anyone can wash dishes, clear tables, pick fruit). Also, this might get you a short term job to save some cash for your trip. Unless you already have similar skills or are multilingual and have savings already, in which case, fly!
Nicely written, by the way.
I would, personally, not want to end a relationship just to travel. I guess if it eventually ended then I would say traveling is a good idea.
[QUOTE=TEAMGiant;21142021]I would, personally, not want to end a relationship just to travel. I guess if it eventually ended then I would say traveling is a good idea.[/QUOTE]
Huh? Was there a relationship? I didn't read it like a relationship, I read housemate. If I was wrong, then I'd suggest take OP her with, if she won't go, say it's something you have to do and go. Said he didn't particularly like her anyway. That part led me to assume housemate, not relationship.
This thread is a skimreaders nightmare.
[QUOTE=gdarks;21144433]Huh? Was there a relationship? I didn't read it like a relationship, I read housemate. If I was wrong, then I'd suggest take OP her with, if she won't go, say it's something you have to do and go. Said he didn't particularly like her anyway. That part led me to assume housemate, not relationship.[/QUOTE]
you're right, she's a housemate, sorry i didn't make that very clear
[QUOTE=Sitkero;21120177]Glasgow is in Scotland :eng101:
Moving on. I think you should definitely wing it.
Potentially better than my plan, join the Marines, go infantry, see what happens.[/QUOTE]
Scotland is in Britain.
:eng101:
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