How do People Suffer in Ghana and the USA

Asiabill from has written 258 comments

Mood swings are part of living life and all of us experience them some more often than others. Your grandma's "get on with life" attitude followed by action is nearly the same as the Zen master code more readily lived than explained verbally. We teach our daughter various ways of manipulating her own mood swings suggesting comparisons between herself and her former classmates or people she knows personally. I refer to it as "taking a break from oneself" like the old LSD influenced cliche or song lyric, "outside looking in" . it always helps to put oneself in the other person's life and mindset to understand their reaction or attitude about any issue in life.

In my teens my family became members of a fundamentalist Baptist church where in some of my more formative years I was indoctrinated by the minister, the church members, the Bible school teachers, various traveling evangelists and various Biblical verses. Years after I broke away from such groups and their ideologies when I formulated my own individual faith in a higher being I realized that living one's life a day at a time with a smile on my face bears greater witness and sharing of faith than preaching verbally. In high school I read or rather skimmed through, "The Greening of America" in the wee hours to finish a course assignment. It spoke of our grandparents' and parents' generations and how CHANGE of any sort would NOT come quickly nor via mass following but slowly individual by individual choosing to change their action on a day to day basis throughout their life.

Go Forward never straight with a stiff upper lip and enjoy life as an incredible wonderful experience.

lometogo from has written 12 comments

Andy, Are you really on vacation? You are living life just like someone going to work every day. You have same fears, doubts, boredom, resentments, etc, don't you?

I have traveled a good bit and realize that travel in and of itself is not the dream I make it out to be. After a few days, life is the same (and yes, very different, too): same issues because all issues have nothing do to with geography (or very little) because all issues originate with my thinking.

Love your travelog and I hope you find a good book and have a HOT Christmas.

Cheers!

Gadget from has written 916 comments

A person that is retired has all the normal emotions.

Vacation: Time spent doing anything you want to do...I do what I want 99 percent of the time, still experiencing normal emotions.

I do not allow things to enter my schedule that would make me feel rushed or busy, but some bears are smarter than other bears.

I am getting on a bus this morning, I do not want to get on Buses, Planes or look for Hotels, and read maps. When they invent a perfect world, I will sign up, until than, my life is always a little out of balance and trying to teeter totter correct is the art.

has written 205 comments

I almost got a DUI in Thailand. Wrecked a motorbike and spent 3 days in hospital.

When I went to get bike out of the tow yard was told to go to police station to get
release papers. There they did a investigation....

Cop: Where you drinking ?
Chuck: No of course not.
Cop: Why you crash ?
Chuck: Dog ran infront of bike.
Cop: OK fee for close case paperwork 1,000 bhat
Chuck: Yes ,sir thank you sir. Kapoon krap.

Thai justice, we both left with a smile on our faces..........

"As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life." ~ Buddha

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present." ~ Babatunde Olatunji



all the best

K

tropicalguide from has written 112 comments

After my DUI in the 1970s, hitting bottom, I joined the 'club', then called my Mom, who said only three words 'It's about time!'
Got a lot to be grateful for, friends, a roof over my head, a pension, life in the tropics, never perfect, but beats shoveling snow and paying high rents, auto insurance, heating oil bills and more bills. This morning ran my errands and took teh rest of teh day 'off', too many crazy drivers out there 'celebrating' the holidays. Thanks for all the posts this year, love some of em, didnt like some others, but all in all enjoy reading someone online traveling who is not pc and not saving the world. Amen.