I feel like I am done with life

[Spicoli]

Repetition of a unfavorable routine spawns negativity like black mold. You gotta break the cycle, change your day up and what I always say is 'find a spot'. Something that makes ya smile in the moment. Not like a leering loon smile licking pennies in a Waffle House...but a smile that comes from the smallest thing to bigger. There are so many times we ignore a positive thought because we're obsessed..'stuck'..on seemingly overwhelming monotony or bad situations doing laps in our minds. What goes around comes around.

[walrus]

I will say this. Money isn’t everything it but allows more freedom. It allows one the ability to travel, freedom from the stress of bills which they say ruins marriages. We can manage fine without a bunch of money but it does decrease your circle. It actually sucks.

[Gandalf]

Brock get your bum out to Japan and you will find more peace. Just the air and politeness for a start. You know it is the slog of the big city grinding you down and the insanity of the West. Get out to a quiet Japanese city, stay there for 3 years and things will improve for you. The despair will never leave, but a change of scenery can help.

I have a lot to say on this topic having been through a lot this last 6 months but I won't say anything personal anymore. Needless to say I relate to a lot of the things said. I might not be 54 but I got old young and life has not always gone as it could have.

[walrus]

Brock get your bum out to Japan and you will find more peace. Just the air and politeness for a start. You know it is the slog of the big city grinding you down and the insanity of the West. Get out to a quiet Japanese city, stay there for 3 years and things will improve for you. The despair will never leave, but a change of scenery can help.

I have a lot to say on this topic having been through a lot this last 6 months but I won't say anything personal anymore. Needless to say I relate to a lot of the things said. I might not be 54 but I got old young and life has not always gone as it could have.

Sounds good miles, nice and anti western, but where ever you go, there u are. A geographical escape would work for a time but then the dark shadows would return to his empty core

[Gandalf]

Brock get your bum out to Japan and you will find more peace. Just the air and politeness for a start. You know it is the slog of the big city grinding you down and the insanity of the West. Get out to a quiet Japanese city, stay there for 3 years and things will improve for you. The despair will never leave, but a change of scenery can help.

I have a lot to say on this topic having been through a lot this last 6 months but I won't say anything personal anymore. Needless to say I relate to a lot of the things said. I might not be 54 but I got old young and life has not always gone as it could have.

Sounds good miles, nice and anti western, but where ever you go, there u are. A geographical escape would work for a time but then the dark shadows would return to his empty core

Life in any big city is unpleasant though. It is costly, noisy, takes time to commute, people are miserable and seemingly imported from all over the place. Go somewhere smaller, more peaceful, more homogeneous, with beautiful scenery and politeness. I think the last place I would want to be if I am feeling down about life is London. I know I couldn't afford to live there with any degree of comfort, I know rush hour is a horror story, I know it is a rat race. It's unpleasant.

The West has become deranged and though there is push back against it it must be a lonely place to be if you have any common sense. Who wants to be around all that crime, that violence, that rudeness. At least Japan is safe, serene, polite, has great public transportation. It can be expensive true, but on a teachers salary and with provided living quarters it is doable. New York on 14 bucks an hour is hard for anyone. Teaching is not like flipping burgers, it is a very demanding job and that plus the stress of a rude place like New York will wear any man down.

Brock isn't done with life. He needs a break and to recharge his batteries. 54 is a long way from being done, but a big city is not natural for a human being of any age. These are contemporary forced enclosures to keep it ticking over for the higher ups. Nothing more.

[walrus]

Our cities, the better ones, are filled with interesting sights, history, activities, restaurants and clubs. If you can make it there you will make it anywhere

[Gandalf]

Our cities, the better ones, are filled with interesting sights, history, activities, restaurants and clubs. If you can make it there you will make it anywhere

On 14 bucks an hour? It's tough Walrus. I know a few people living in London and they only get by living in a single room of a house. How are you supposed to get married, raise a family or do anything normal? It's rubbish. Then you end up with teachers, ordinary public school teachers, unable to live there and having to commute from an hour to two hours just to get to work each day. It looks like no way to live. It would wear anyone down.

It's okay for you with money Walrus, you can do what you like and pop into New York for a week stay in a nice hotel and do whatever, but for those doing all the jobs that keep the city running. They are paid a pittance for what they do and that is why I am an economic socialist. Not a cultural socialist, but a traditional, normal economic one.

[brocktonblockbust]

Thanks Miles. I can say the worst three years of my life that I can remember where the past three years here in the United States. The sickness of the people mentally and physically and spiritually is beyond words. the other problem is the people in this country talk about the most menial pedantic insignificant boring things you can imagine as if they are some kind of earth-shattering topics. I have listened to people on the buses and on the trains and then the streets literally talkin for 35 or 40 minutes about the new TV they got or the new furniture they got or the new car that they got for the new SUV or the new wrist watch or the new sunglasses. I have listened to white people talk about kitchen countertops in kitchen cabinets for over 1 hour on their phones when I am on the bus between New Jersey and New York. What a bunch of garbage soulless unspiritual trash this country is and the people in it

[walrus]

Thanks Miles. I can say the worst three years of my life that I can remember where the past three years here in the United States. The sickness of the people mentally and physically and spiritually is beyond words. the other problem is the people in this country talk about the most menial pedantic insignificant boring things you can imagine as if they are some kind of earth-shattering topics. I have listened to people on the buses and on the trains and then the streets literally talkin for 35 or 40 minutes about the new TV they got or the new furniture they got or the new car that they got for the new SUV or the new wrist watch or the new sunglasses. I have listened to white people talk about kitchen countertops in kitchen cabinets for over 1 hour on their phones when I am on the bus between New Jersey and New York. What a bunch of garbage soulless unspiritual trash this country is and the people in it

Holy cow this coming from a guy who gets stuck on a single stupid topic for a week. Wtf you think people will have deep conversations on a bus where idiots like u are listening in. Wtf

[brocktonblockbust]

nobody needs that much money. I know people who travel the entire world starting from the east coast of the United States over to Europe down to Africa across the middle east or to India down to Southeast Asia up to China and then the Far East Asia and back to California they did the whole thing for 2500 us dollars