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This reply has Everything to do with "not experiencing life". Dude, that is part of YOU, who you are, and how you live life. Moving to someplace different doesn't change You, it must moves everything that you are to a new place. You can't run away from yourself (trust me, I've moved an average of once every 1.3 years since I turned 18 ~ I'm in my 40's now), it takes a change from within.
Experiencing life is about simply doing it. Sounds like there are Other issues at play (paying your $2,350, or whatever it moves to next, to renounce US citizenship), but if you think that just by moving to the other side of the world will have a sudden change in how you experience life, you're setting yourself up for a mighty fall. If you don't get out and experience life right now, when you're at the height of your comfort zone, what makes you think you're going to do it when EVERYTHING is foreign, different, more stressful to deal with?
No dog in this race, just hate to think that someone would turn their lives upside down to see a change that won't come from turning their life upside down. IMHO, if you want to experience life and you're a "typical" american, there are 2 things you can do. Cancel your TV service/get rid of TV and limit your "internet connected" time to an hour a day outside of work. You're going to get bored with sitting in your home and start looking outside for stimulus (generally, I don't know anyone who can just sit for hours on end with nothing... though hand me a good book and I'll kill 8 hours without issue). At 32 you're really in a prime section of life, old enough to have some stability, young enough to not hurt every fucking morning, even if you didn't DO anything the day before, energy to go all day and money to try new things (though, I know money is WAY tighter these days than when I turned 32 ~ you're probably not going to just pick up flying a sailplane just to see if you like it).
This is just opinion, but one of the best things I've done for getting out and experiencing life more is to buy a nice camera. $600 on a Sony NEX (you can get them used for under $300, or buy Better stuff), and suddenly I was looking for time to get out and find new things to shoot. I was already fairly active before that, but it filled the void that cutting out TV left.
It's not that I'm not experiencing life here, I just want to try and experience it somewhere else, if that makes more sense, wasn't trying to imply that I wasn't experiencing life at all, sorry if it came off that way.
I'm a pretty positive person, and well I do experience life while I still have why not move and have a new one? Plus 32 but already near my life expectancy (got an auto immune disorder even though I still work because I'm not one to lay down and just live off the welfare and disability), so figured might as well go out and explore the world, already have most of the US.
If you got a BA/BS you could probably finding a crap job teaching English in Japan. That's the easiest way to get a visa there and possibly other non-English speaking countries.
Nike used have a commericial that simple said --
Just do it
Just fucking do it!
If you don't do it, you regret it!
You will regret it
So just do it!
Move! Go! Shit in your house is just that shit.
Trust me, any experience outside of the U.S. can't be as bad as not trying!
Note: I live outside of the U.S. for half my life and now I'm living the southern life style! Mmmmm, catfish, sweat tea and fried pickles and pulled pork BBQ! Yahoo y'all!
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Dickhead.
[edit] I was pretty wasted when I posted this. Of course I'm referring to Sumguy - if you want to give someone your take on pop psychology, motivation or "experiencing life" search for v/drphill. Better yet, try reddit.
OP: I did just what you describe and have never looked back.
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[–] sumguy 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
This reply has Nothing to do with Australia.
This reply has Everything to do with "not experiencing life". Dude, that is part of YOU, who you are, and how you live life. Moving to someplace different doesn't change You, it must moves everything that you are to a new place. You can't run away from yourself (trust me, I've moved an average of once every 1.3 years since I turned 18 ~ I'm in my 40's now), it takes a change from within.
Experiencing life is about simply doing it. Sounds like there are Other issues at play (paying your $2,350, or whatever it moves to next, to renounce US citizenship), but if you think that just by moving to the other side of the world will have a sudden change in how you experience life, you're setting yourself up for a mighty fall. If you don't get out and experience life right now, when you're at the height of your comfort zone, what makes you think you're going to do it when EVERYTHING is foreign, different, more stressful to deal with?
No dog in this race, just hate to think that someone would turn their lives upside down to see a change that won't come from turning their life upside down. IMHO, if you want to experience life and you're a "typical" american, there are 2 things you can do. Cancel your TV service/get rid of TV and limit your "internet connected" time to an hour a day outside of work. You're going to get bored with sitting in your home and start looking outside for stimulus (generally, I don't know anyone who can just sit for hours on end with nothing... though hand me a good book and I'll kill 8 hours without issue). At 32 you're really in a prime section of life, old enough to have some stability, young enough to not hurt every fucking morning, even if you didn't DO anything the day before, energy to go all day and money to try new things (though, I know money is WAY tighter these days than when I turned 32 ~ you're probably not going to just pick up flying a sailplane just to see if you like it).
This is just opinion, but one of the best things I've done for getting out and experiencing life more is to buy a nice camera. $600 on a Sony NEX (you can get them used for under $300, or buy Better stuff), and suddenly I was looking for time to get out and find new things to shoot. I was already fairly active before that, but it filled the void that cutting out TV left.
Good luck.
[–] TheTrueTexan [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It's not that I'm not experiencing life here, I just want to try and experience it somewhere else, if that makes more sense, wasn't trying to imply that I wasn't experiencing life at all, sorry if it came off that way.
[–] TheTrueTexan [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I'm a pretty positive person, and well I do experience life while I still have why not move and have a new one? Plus 32 but already near my life expectancy (got an auto immune disorder even though I still work because I'm not one to lay down and just live off the welfare and disability), so figured might as well go out and explore the world, already have most of the US.
[–] luckyguy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Along @sumguy's lines, have you considered moving within the US. The US is huge. I'm sure there is some place you can go that will be different.
[–] WhiteRonin 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If you got a BA/BS you could probably finding a crap job teaching English in Japan. That's the easiest way to get a visa there and possibly other non-English speaking countries.
Nike used have a commericial that simple said --
Just do it
Just fucking do it!
If you don't do it, you regret it!
You will regret it
So just do it!
Move! Go! Shit in your house is just that shit.
Trust me, any experience outside of the U.S. can't be as bad as not trying!
Note: I live outside of the U.S. for half my life and now I'm living the southern life style! Mmmmm, catfish, sweat tea and fried pickles and pulled pork BBQ! Yahoo y'all!
[–] Moirae 3 points -3 points 0 points (+0|-3) ago (edited ago)
Dickhead.
[edit] I was pretty wasted when I posted this. Of course I'm referring to Sumguy - if you want to give someone your take on pop psychology, motivation or "experiencing life" search for v/drphill. Better yet, try reddit.
OP: I did just what you describe and have never looked back.