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pato23
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Happy and grateful 2011

13 years ago

Pato23 Has Posted A Comment On 2011 Happy and Grateful, and is Thinking Making me Cynical

The popular concept of happiness seems removed from the fact that you need to WORK AT BEING HAPPY AND BE AMBITIOUS enough to get what you want. It is my impression that people expect a movie world where they can just sit back and have happiness brought to them.

The culture of the USA once prided itself as being a place where if people worked hard they could achieve their dreams. No people seem to just want their dreams without the work.

You do sell dreams, but they are dreams that someone needs to work for. It is my impression that the work part is something that many cannot handle. So perhaps they try to make themselves feel better by trying to lower you down a few pegs, trying to make themselves think that you are not really living their dreams in reality.

Many people would like to sit around
Latin America, S.E. Asia
or Africa on the cheap with all the time in the world to just look at women with hardly any clothes on, but it is far easier for them to just sit where they are and pretend that they don't really want this.

The life of perpetual world traveller or long term ex pat, content in country and culture where they reside, does not come for most on a silver platter, it takes effort and will power to get there. Honest travel writing will show this. Not websites put up by scam artists selling land and real estate or rentals in their 'paradise'.

Relocating? Start by doing your homework, travel to your target country, city or region first. Make contacts and friends, not demands or requests, learn how to do it yourself, save money, time and frustration and you should know, if the local language is not English, learn to speak, read and understand the language above basic level, if you are from the US and are moving 2,000 miles away to live with other people from the US in a gated community, speaking English, sounds like a bad movie to me. just my opinion. Happy New Year 2011

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