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Ruphus
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 RE: Was I too harsh? (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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It is a weird mixture of obligations and rationals.
Traditionally your were supposed to make plans. And I would feel guilty for having none. ( Standard question to little kids: "So, what do you want to become when grown up?" My reply: "Don´t know". Mother then with a side prod: "You like to become a doctor, isn´t it.")
Fact:
# It would indeed be nice if pedagogics helped children with discovering one or several individual passions from early on and pursue them.
# In the prospering post WWII times it appeared ridiculous when youngsters were railing their future path.
Now, after having made no societal use of the decades of ecological chance to the benefit of the people, but instead looting pedestrians through radical rapture capitalism, Joe Average has been left with no reserves and no outlook.
( The current generation can´t even count with parental heir anymore.)
So, now the missing perspective and chance for plans leave the people insecure.
... Funnily expressed in paradox ways, with folks in Germany for instance reducing their little of savings even more by shopping around as if it were the eighties still.
Media told them not to worry and instead spend some more to keep the market twisting, and they follow like ususally.
That´s how guys like me were joined by large company with our lack of plan.
One´s got to make up his mind:
# Like avantgarde? Maybe go to hip Skandinavian places like Stockholm.
# Fed up by the downhill of ethical standards and cultural desaster? Seeking for ambience of down to earth and sincere being? Maybe settle in Skandinavia as well, like in Norway ( before it be messed up by strange customs too. - Syrians now offered German stay will reject and insist to be let through to further north towards Sweden or Norway where there is preserved more still of the traditional trust, support and sincerity that can easily be misused) or make the jump to NZ maybe.
# Like it progressive and socially advancing? Check out Latin America.
# Aiming just for most lasting of ecological refuges for a getaway? That could be in Latin America as well, like in Peru or in Central America, if you don´t mind a potential of earthquakes.
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Personally I am not certain if I would like to return to Germany or not. My current favorite looks like a settle in Granada, gladly in or near a British colony. With Germany and Costa Rica coming in second. ( Actually CR should be ideal for decoupling oneself from the global crap and enjoy nature as long as possible. Only that it is geographically so far from Europe.)
... All much too vague to call it a plan.
And what could a plan be worth anyway, when your environment deserts away?
Amassing natural catastrophies and mass extinction are not exactly what one builds future houses on, indeed.
Catastrophies like now on the Philippines are the upbeat still of a global destruction that was predicted decades ago and could had been prevented, if anyone had listened.
But 7 billion heads are actually still up in rears, extracting their reality from unworldly media. Completely deadened about the ground beneath their feet.
Planning for iPod 8 and pairs of latest boutique sneakers.
Ruphus
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Date Nov. 11 2013 11:09:21
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Ruphus
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RE: Was I too harsh? (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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Thank you, Anders; and same goes for you who raised good points in response.
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ORIGINAL: Anders Eliasson
You forgot one:
*Accept the chaos of post modern society (read Auster) and stop worrying to much. There´s always a new way to go. (Easy to say, difficult to do)
Actually, that is basically what I seek, only that I can´t overcome myself.
Can´t even separate myself from the bad news. Tried maybe 20 years ago first time to not read the news, and just couldn´t for more than a week or so.
And even CR did appeal in respect of that I thought the Ticos were open and interested in rational explorations. ( While in ethical response their tradition is already a lovely one.)
On first sight my dream however is to tie up some hammock in a green garden with lush green, and birds in the trees, surrounded by either high walls or friendly landscape and with a guitar on the stand at hand.
And every now and then friends coming by to sit at long tables in the open with delicious food & drink. >sigh< 
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ORIGINAL: Anders Eliasson
Finally, and with respect of Costa Rica: Isnt it so that it full of run down hippies with all the "correct" ideals? If I´m right in saying so, could you live in a place like that?
During my research before the trip I read already that German expats aren´t eager to see countrymen in CR.
At my stay, after two months or so I encountered some open air bar owning Germans that seemed quite how you describe, and I fled their company soon.
Think me would rather mingle with Canadians and Americans, meeting only a small number of selected homies. For most however me should be looking for the company of the Ticos. There´s been bad influence on them from Contras, Guatemalians, Columbians etc., but there are unspoiled originals still, presenting such integer and dear mentality. ( I wished someone could greet a cute old lady by the name of Aurelia in San José from me, but we seem to have no CRs on board here.)
Also CR has a great diversity of province with plenty of areas far from eventual German squares.
I have been inspecting lots that were even far from any neighbour at all. Up on hills after long muddy serpentines, with the jungle in your back and around you, and the ocean in your front view.
In mind then already building my place there.
- Just to think of where I am now instead, worlds from all that. Robbed of almost all that was mine, and not even left with what you could call a garden. Topped with real estate prices as if it were about Cannes, for desolate residences in ugly and littered areas.
Life likes to tease me with nasty kinds of irony.
Ruphus
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