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Sara Campbell's avatar

Interesting point about the safer parts of the world removing a certain quality from our day to day experience! Hard to lose sight of the essentials when the stakes are so high. Similarly, I’ve been finding myself much more at home with a far busier schedule that balances computer work with a lot of IRL community service. So much easier to just be a body.

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Nicholas Goodey's avatar

'So much easier to just be a body' is so well put.

'I'm full and need to be emptied, I'm empty and need to be filled, I'm neither full nor empty and need nothing!' - ahhhhhh the zen of that space.

I've determined that if I need to be at my computer for more than 3 hours in a day, there are some strategic changes I need to make to put me in the flesh and blood world more. Computer work and Work are definitely different things <3

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Sara Campbell's avatar

Amen!

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Jude Klinger's avatar

I was born in the wrong place. I turned 18, I left. It all worked out. I guess it happens to some people, and some people stay on the same block all their lives. There's room for both, right? I can relate to feeling at home in a strange place. For me, it was Hong Kong in the mid to late 70's.

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Nicholas Goodey's avatar

I think about this a lot, this strange, unspoken feeling, almost of animosity, that the Leavers have for the Remainers (non-political phrasing), and vice versa. As though one group KNOWS something the other doesn't. But I guess the Remainers know they were born in the right place, and the Leavers know the opposite is true!

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Ariane Goodwin's avatar

Responsibility gets such a bad rap, a heavy suit of armor dragging you from point A to point B. Giving freedom-responsibility this life-and-death reframe knocks off the cobwebs of conditioning so societal, familial, and cultural expectations loosen their grip. All hail to Vietnam...

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Nicholas Goodey's avatar

Responsibility, as my friend would often simplistically deconstruct, is the ability to respond. How such an ability can be seen as a heavy suit of armour is beyond me! Do you wish to discard of your human free will so easily?! Madness!

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Danver Chandler's avatar

I really appreciate your questions—as an avid traveler/adventurer my relationship with place is something that is really starting to impact my perception of the world and how I am in it. These questions will sit with me.

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Nicholas Goodey's avatar

Happy to hear it Danver. They've stayed with me too. There's a few layers on the cake, it would seem :)

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