Going home. Feeling nervous.

[themodernnomad]

[quote:0714f92fa3="kabuki_mono"]

Any thoughts about going back to your home country after so long on the road in various different places? (friends and family aside of course)

[b:0714f92fa3]Km[/b:0714f92fa3][/quote:0714f92fa3]

Huge people, eating huge meals, with huge beltbuckles, and huge cowboy hats, driving huge vehicles, and spending huge amounts of money.

On the plus side: huge tits.

(can I say that on digihitch? It's just so much more meaty than breasts or boobs - pun, ahem intended.)

Oh, and also, everything is square.

Thank god for South America, is all I can say.

-MN

[RangerChris]

[/quote]On the plus side: huge tits. LOL! Its good to see family once in awhile, at home right now myself. MN do you find that when you tell family your stories you hold any details back? I definitely do quite often, I'll tell my dad what I'm upto but omit alot so I don't worry him. He used to hitch hike but not like I do and certainly not in winter or that far north.

[themodernnomad]

[quote:dc8543a948="RangerChris"]On the plus side: huge tits. LOL! Its good to see family once in awhile, at home right now myself. MN do you find that when you tell family your stories you hold any details back? I definitely do quite often, I'll tell my dad what I'm upto but omit alot so I don't worry him. He used to hitch hike but not like I do and certainly not in winter or that far north.[/quote:dc8543a948]

My family's pretty thick-skinned. I don't usually leave out much, unless it's just none of their business. The adventures are always in full detail. They will worry anyways, and my Dad likes to hear about my stories, even the dangerous ones or questionable legality ones.

-MN

[kabuki_mono]

[quote:7f5cde8192="themodernnomad"]
My family's pretty thick-skinned. I don't usually leave out much, unless it's just none of their business. The adventures are always in full detail. They will worry anyways, and my Dad likes to hear about my stories, even the dangerous ones or questionable legality ones.

-MN[/quote:7f5cde8192]

Oh Yes!! what would be the fun in travelling if later on you can't splay out in full details all them trecherous/crazy/scary and maybe insane moments one has lived! That's what makes this all worthwhile and [b:7f5cde8192]great[/b:7f5cde8192]!!

[b:7f5cde8192]Km[/b:7f5cde8192]

[RangerChris]

Well for once I decided to throw in the juicy details and now they're trying to force a greyhound ticket home on me that I don't really want. This is the kind of thing I've been trying to avoid...

[WildWill]

[quote:a435c49a47="RangerChris"]Well for once I decided to throw in the juicy details and now they're trying to force a greyhound ticket home on me that I don't really want. This is the kind of thing I've been trying to avoid...[/quote:a435c49a47]

This is so frustrating, eh? I'm currently writing an email to my family trying to make them understand that I am not afraid of life as they are, and I cannot live as they wish I would. It is selfishness at the end of the day - our antics worry them, and that unbalances their comfortable lives...

Just as grief is selfish. The person themselves feels no pain, so why do we hurt for them?

[Scrappy]

Maybe its because they live their dampened down lives vicariously through our actions and adventures, feel guilty about it, and then strive to make our lives more like theirs. I know that some of my people do that to or towards me. Trouble is that they're trying to drag me down into the hole that they're in and somewhere I have to draw the line. Its a painful line to draw too, as I only wish for them that they live their own lives, but they won't treat me in that same manner. Bottom line is that each and all of us must make our own choices, and those are personal only. When we try to force our choices onto another person, we err and do the wrong thing. They just fail to see that point and continue to force their choices, ways, and leanings onto those of us who have already rejected it, and wonder why we get upset about their pushiness of the issues. One man's trash is truely another man's treasure, one's ceiling is another's floor, so is it really any wonder that they won't undrstand? Not can't understand, but won't. I say don't lose any sleep over it and live your life, not just exist in your life. Quality over quantity. Go, themodernomad.

[RangerChris]

Well it's official, they've forced the issue and spent 360$ on the bus and I feel like a douche accepting it. Our difference in perspective is staggering, they feel it's necessary even though the weather is mild comparatively now. I look at that money and think to myself that I could have done the trip, bought a couple drivers lunch and had 200 left easy... Next time I will keep my plans to myself around home.

[WildWill]

[quote:fe833599df="RangerChris"]Well it's official, they've forced the issue and spent 360$ on the bus and I feel like a douche accepting it. Our difference in perspective is staggering, they feel it's necessary even though the weather is mild comparatively now. I look at that money and think to myself that I could have done the trip, bought a couple drivers lunch and had 200 left easy... Next time I will keep my plans to myself around home.[/quote:fe833599df]

Well, I don't know how this suggestion will go with the dynamics of your family, but there is nothing really keeping you on that bus... Whats to stop you hitching back as planned, regardless of the ticket in your hand? That ticket signifies lost opportunities and experiences.

With this you also have two options - do it for yourself, hitching back without telling them. Or do it to show them their error, and tell them you have no intention of riding the bus, it is not you and they need to accept that.

Edit: Just happened to read a bit of Kahlil Gibran's book The Prophet, that applies here.

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.
And he said:
Your children are not your children
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer see the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends tou with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

[RangerChris]

Considered it but couldnt bring myself to waste it, got in 3am this mornin and what a crappy ride that was...