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Originally Posted by Homeless
My wife, my family and friends, and my health...anything else is trivial...
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Exactly, my health is the most important and I mean mental health. Without family(my friends are more than friends), the love of a good woman, education(not school/brainwashing), and dignity I would not be living even if I was breathing. I bow for no man and will die for it, without dignity you are not a man. A good woman keeps my mind and body at ease, without her I would probably go off like a supernova. Good friends ensure that as long as one of us has the essentials(food, shelter, water) the rest of us can keep the previous two with relative ease. Relative is the key word here. It was a lot easier before 2000. Since then my mental health has been stressed thanks to US/British foreign policy and recently Canadian! Friends are harder to see, they are all over the world. Dignity is harder to maintain, I feel screwed. The love of my woman has become a long distance thing. The Canadian government has since our last election bent its foreign policy and my girlfriend(Thai national) cannot get a visa to come visit me or meet my family. Possibly the best human being I have ever met with grace that I had only read about and they won't let her in for a three week visit! I may have to raise my pissed off level to red from urine yellow and do something other than talk to preserve my mental health. Oh well, I was going to stay and work here in Canada from May until February but my health says I will be going back to Asia soon. I like it there, respect, dignity and honor are a lot easier to maintain there where basic morality still mean something. In Canada, very few kids play outdoors anymore, I have too schedual an appointment to go for a beer with friends, my family has become foreign to me, I cannot sleep, the comedy news network(CNN) keeps spitting out propaganda and no one cares to disbelieve because they are too complacent. Does anyone in the US read world news from a non-US source? I have personally visited many of these crisis areas and many of my friends are/were British and Australian soldiers. I have friends in the Canadian government as well as influential people from many countries and they all say the same thing about what has been going on in the last 10 years. All be it in confidence! This is a world economy and society and that means educating ourselves with the world. Without this Nope, the simple like with the basic is for me. Finally, education, without my worldly learning I would be just like my brother, a hamster on a wheel. He and his wife generally believe that the rest of the world is bad and N.A. is good. I have for years tried to get him to open his eyes to the rest of the world, their family vaction from Canada is Disneyland 5 times a year. Last year they went to Hawaii and found that the ocean is more entertaining and educational for their kids and better for their soul. Since then they are becoming more open to the idea of leaving the mainland to travel. Soon, I hope, I will not have to come back here at all. My needs will then be readily at hand and I can walk tall with no strain on my back.
That said I do still have one obvious luxury(almost a need) and that is my music. Great to keep me sane at home. However when in Asia, I find myself going out to listen music a lot more. The music is generally not my cup of tea, but the essence is still there. Bangkok has one of the best jazz scenes so I try and go out there every time I am in town. I miss my woman, the general honesty and kindness of the people, and most of all not having to battle everyday to maintain my dignity.