Appendice 1
Well, make sure you read the last post before this one, it would help, seeing as its really only an addition.
Id like to clarify the 'being nicer' comment. When I say this, its a fairly general mood change and life change. Being niver includes trying to make sure facial expressions arent ones that seem condescending, less 'sharp' remarks in that I really dont mean to drive home some points as much as I do. General openness to new things, or even things I was not as good about (music in particular). I really have a much brighter outlook on life now after the 'trip' and am more appreciative and respective of so much more. I have always tried to be open minded and all but I dont know how much I showed it. So its more of thinking more before I say things and general ideas such as that.
I feel almost disheartened somtimes at the way things work. Or at least when it comes to relationships with different people. For a long time I seemed to take for granted that people I didnt like or even people i didnt know that well actually have hopes and dreams. Not meaning of course I didnt think they had them, but some people amaze me at how deep they actually go. I do like knowing more about people to have a closer connection to them, because on the surface Im so different than many people, but down there somewhere are more things in common than you might know.
So I guess I leave with this: I see everyone planning their lives out and all with college and work after schooling, but! many people have not necessarilly expressed where they want such jobs and where they would like to live.
Ill put down an example of what I mean and hopefully people shall follow suit.
I know that for my major and field, to be with a big corporation and the computer science and programming I would need to do would be in a big city. I like dabbling in city life and all but my heart does lay out in the countryside as much as I may have bitched in younger years. The parents did a fine job in picking a place to raise me, it is a nice neighborhood. So off that there are a couple options I am looking at. Ultimately I would like to live in a place like VT, with lots of open area a cute little house with a view, a German Shepard and a bowl in my hand :-). I am still deciding on the whole family situation myself but please post that as well if you yourself know. Whether I can only do that after retiring due to the city thing, or if I could live out there and be able to do remote coding in our wonderful almost wireless world, I dont know. We shall see, everything is constantly changing and Ill see, but that is the basic place I would like to settle.
-Metal
Id like to clarify the 'being nicer' comment. When I say this, its a fairly general mood change and life change. Being niver includes trying to make sure facial expressions arent ones that seem condescending, less 'sharp' remarks in that I really dont mean to drive home some points as much as I do. General openness to new things, or even things I was not as good about (music in particular). I really have a much brighter outlook on life now after the 'trip' and am more appreciative and respective of so much more. I have always tried to be open minded and all but I dont know how much I showed it. So its more of thinking more before I say things and general ideas such as that.
I feel almost disheartened somtimes at the way things work. Or at least when it comes to relationships with different people. For a long time I seemed to take for granted that people I didnt like or even people i didnt know that well actually have hopes and dreams. Not meaning of course I didnt think they had them, but some people amaze me at how deep they actually go. I do like knowing more about people to have a closer connection to them, because on the surface Im so different than many people, but down there somewhere are more things in common than you might know.
So I guess I leave with this: I see everyone planning their lives out and all with college and work after schooling, but! many people have not necessarilly expressed where they want such jobs and where they would like to live.
Ill put down an example of what I mean and hopefully people shall follow suit.
I know that for my major and field, to be with a big corporation and the computer science and programming I would need to do would be in a big city. I like dabbling in city life and all but my heart does lay out in the countryside as much as I may have bitched in younger years. The parents did a fine job in picking a place to raise me, it is a nice neighborhood. So off that there are a couple options I am looking at. Ultimately I would like to live in a place like VT, with lots of open area a cute little house with a view, a German Shepard and a bowl in my hand :-). I am still deciding on the whole family situation myself but please post that as well if you yourself know. Whether I can only do that after retiring due to the city thing, or if I could live out there and be able to do remote coding in our wonderful almost wireless world, I dont know. We shall see, everything is constantly changing and Ill see, but that is the basic place I would like to settle.
-Metal