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[Rock]

I didn't want to say anything, but I just wanted to bring it on. You see, I'm sitting at home about. . .as far away as this board from sense. . .across the river and through the woods. . .to Korea again I may go. But then I see the big bad wolf of the past, and the faces, and the kids, and the alienation and. . .

You want to feel as if it's leading somewhere other than this, this sojourn to and in Korea. . .some people turning to the left. . .others, finding the right. . .still more, leaning on the fairytale existence of it all, thinking there's an end. Or is it a job at a supermarket back home, at best?

Some claim they're demeaned lawyers over there in Asia, others, the Great Teacher's, MA's hanging from their hips. And others, wiling away their days until they finally land their big one back home, somehow thinking this is just beneath them. Still there are more, and more of us, me, looking through the possiblilites of ekking out a few reasons as to the outcome of this all, of being there.

Bring it on, then, you who want to say and think you may have an excuse to your sojourn, and return, and in so saying there might not but be anything except a ticket back home to guide you buy, just like the ticket there.

[Demonicat]

huh, was that a exerpt from Joyce?

[skinhead]

Rock, I know you're fishing for something, I just don't know what it is....

[eamo]

[Rock]

To refute Eamo, I'd like to ask if WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW YOU'RE LOSING BY WASTING YOUR TIME IN ASIA, namely this being your future, career, social opportunity, and lack of recognition and identity, when and if you do return home, has ever crossed your mind?

Are you in the same frame of mind as me, thinking, "I'm just throwing my life away" being in Asia?

"Teenage muck" is exactly what a person endures when they feel the adult-hood the litany above presents and vies with Jame's Joyce's feeling, "You Can Never Return/Go Home(Again.)"

[Bulsajo]

Bro, it's not the destination but how you get there, yadda yadda yadda.
I thought all poets knew that.

[canuckistan]

I've always thought it's kinda fun throwing myself into a completely different culture. Having the opportunity to work at the same time is a *bonus.*

[Pangit]

Could Korea be better than where you're coming from, given that you'd even contemplate coming here? That's a possibility. Of course it is. Why would it be so bad if it is? Shed the negativity, don't project the meanness of your situation onto the options you have and make a clear decision. We're not here to make the choice for you. You don't have to compare yourself to others. Learn some self-trust.

[Rock]

[Bulsajo]

[quote="Rock] But the practicality of one's culture is what I'm talking about, the slave mentality that, since you didn't work your way up from the bottom here, back home, you're just wasting your time overseas. Then you come home, and low and behold, they want you to start at the bottom, since you don't have any experience, per se, according to these Western standards.
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If you believe those standards then you'll probably be held to them.
You think it's not up to you, but it is.

[Gorgias]

A lot of us have forgot about "making a living." Many younger folks have been fed so full of high dreams and aspirations that we sometimes forget that some people, myself included, just want to make a living. I don't want to be a Doctor, a Lawyer, or an Indian Chief; or what ever highfalutin dream one might have latched onto. If working in a super market pays the bills, keeps you fed and pays the child support, then great. If teaching in Korea is how you're gonna make a living, super; don't make a simpleton's life seem like some big ol' drama of opportunity and possibilities. Your options are pretty limited, and your goals are not far beyond just having a roof over y'r head. Or maybe I'm the only one who won't be driving a BMW to a posh office in Paris next year.

[VanIslander]

[Pangit]

Most lately, you said

[Rock]

I have to go with what Gorgias said. Thanks Gorgias, I think this applies.

About the "slave mentality" I talked about, I meant the droves of people with dour looks who are expected to be where they're at in life, because those before them(the successful ones,) have succeeded the same way(by hard, grueling labor, ie., menial labor)and this is the only solution. Don't you feel as if you're bucking the system then, in a sense?

I'm not saying menial labor is all I've got, although I look at "the successful ones" and jobs that would require me to be just as financially successful and find the pay just won't pan out for a good time to come yet, unless I slave my way through life. You have to have work experience back home in order to work your way up, so this is what I meant by "wasting your future."

But I'm not asking for anyone to decide for me to stay, or come to Korea either. One thing you have to know is that many an opportunity exists back in your homeland, and your options are unlimited. But I'm pinpointing the practical aspects of life verses the idealistic. Is it that people back home just don't realize this, or people living abroad?

More to be said.

[Pangit]