Are you happy?

[ucbruin]

"I appreciate having something to think through - that's the form of escapism that scratches my itch.."



Sounds to me....
In a few more years....
Your nephews and nieces my have an uncle as Terrel and I had....

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

I don't enjoy travel and I especially don't enjoy sightseeing. Just like I don't go for a drive just to go for a drive, or go for a walk just to go for a walk. I don't experience the need to get away from my life. I'm an introvert - I basically never get bored EXCEPT when I get cut off from the ability to switch tracks in my active thinking. I can't sit in the sun and think about nothing the way some people seem to be able to do. I can't enjoy meaningless small talk or socialize for no reason and no direction. I appreciate having something to think through - that's the form of escapism that scratches my itch..

My wife enjoys a short travel getaway every now and then. Fortunately she has her friends and family to work with on that score so she usually doesn't need me to tag along except to fly the flag for her family. For which I don't mind at all, I just wouldn't voluntarily seek it out for myself.

Until you do it and then it will stuck in your system forever. When you and your buddies are taking pictures of miles and miles of yellow canola fields you realize you have a travel sickness. Or sit at St Andrews for hours marveling at how such a tiny golf course is famous,

 

[DTB]

I don't mind traveling but don't relish either. I could never understand the work 50 weeks and go on a 2 week vacation mindset.

I prefer to have, what I consider fun, every week. My list of fun includes 2-3 days of pickleball (3 hours at a crack), 2 days in the weight room, 3 days fishing in the summer, 1-2 days with grandkids, 1-2 lunchtime hockey in the winter, reading a book per week, daydreaming on the hammock...

While we can afford whatever we want, you'll notice my pleasures are all free or low cost, that's just how I roll.

 

[TC]

 

[Essexfenwick]

I know of a rich relative who have all the money in the world and don't seem happy.
Last month he went to Alaska by himself. This week in Mexico by himself.
Unlike me, having obligations to worry about and no time to think if I'm happy.

Some people are happier as hermits.

 

[DTB]

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[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

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[Fernando]

I don't enjoy travel and I especially don't enjoy sightseeing. Just like I don't go for a drive just to go for a drive, or go for a walk just to go for a walk. I don't experience the need to get away from my life. I'm an introvert - I basically never get bored EXCEPT when I get cut off from the ability to switch tracks in my active thinking. I can't sit in the sun and think about nothing the way some people seem to be able to do. I can't enjoy meaningless small talk or socialize for no reason and no direction. I appreciate having something to think through - that's the form of escapism that scratches my itch..

Then why are you an appraiser? Appraisers need to engage with people to get information. Are you happy being an appraiser?

My wife enjoys a short travel getaway every now and then. Fortunately she has her friends and family to work with on that score so she usually doesn't need me to tag along except to fly the flag for her family. For which I don't mind at all, I just wouldn't voluntarily seek it out for myself.

You should travel to different places and see how the rest of the world lives. It will bring your wife closer as you go through the unknown together.
It's the experiences that stays in your memory forever whether good or bad.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Until you do it and then it will stuck in your system

Several times in my life I simply decided to just 'run away' for a day or two. When family was scattering for Thanksgiving one year I ran down to Dublin, TX to visit an ancestor's grave. A few years earlier before Mom passed away we had installed a new headstone for an ancestor. Her old stone was made from that soft lime rock and had completely deteriorated. So, I decided to go back and see it was OK and then I made a roundabout of the old towns I had worked at in the oil patch - Teague, Fairfield, Mexia, Corsicana, Carthage, Jasper (actually a nice little town despite the horrible racial murder that occurred there 10 years earlier)...and wandered back home on a beautiful late fall day. Another time, I went to Ruidoso and White Sands in the middle of winter, just to say I was there. And I've been bird watching on Mt. Magazine and Holla Bend along the Arkansas River. Great in the fall migration season which is just starting.

 

[Fernando]

Some people are happier as hermits.

Some rich people have all the money to be taken care of that they lose sense of existence.
We're not talking about Elon and Trump wanting more power and money. That will keep them busy.
The complacent ones have no worries and problems dealing with everyday life that most of us experience.
They try to find the meaning of life searching throughout the world to be happy.
That's what I observed.