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It's a good advice, but not everyone needs to run away from something. Sometimes we just have to face ourselves and do a deep introspection on our lives.. I, fo

It's a good advice, but not everyone needs to run away from something. Sometimes we just have to face ourselves and do a deep introspection on our lives.. I, for myself, find it really hard sometimes to know how I should run my life, or what are my goals. Maybe sometimes there isn't any need to have goals, or maybe my goal is to accomplish every goal so that I empty my goal bucket.. Whatever, I think each one of us are mostly giving bad advices to each other, and the truth is that almost no one knows with certainty what we're doing with our lifes. We just go with the tide, turning left or right when things seems to match what we think we want..

richev 10y ago
> It's a good advice, but not everyone needs to run away from something. I prefer to think of it as "running towards"...towards something new, interesting and different.
- heurist 10y ago
  It's novel but it's an ephemeral novelty. It disappears as soon as you're home and back in your old ways. Better to understand the internal source of dissatisfaction and address it directly.
saiya-jin 10y ago
it was never about running away from anything, I was coming back in 3 months to things and people I left there. It was about adventure, exposing yourself to new situations, cultures, people, everything. every single day. it gives you huge amount of time to see yourself, introspect, experience yourself in all kinds of crazy conditions, and discover that we humans are amazing, strong beings if we try a bit. also that monetary wealth and happiness are almost mutually exclusive, but that's another topic :) as for those goals - while hiking in nepal around annapurna, i met american guy, great fella, who unknowingly changed course of my life in many ways. planted some sort of idea-seed in my head. never expected anything like that to happen, there or anywhere. best thing in my life. but for this, you cannot plan nor prepare. for sure, it won't happen while staying at home.
- vlod 10y ago
  > who unknowingly changed course of my life in many ways. planted some sort of idea-seed in my head. never expected anything like that to happen Any chance you can expand on this? Would love to read a blog post.

richev 10y ago

> It's a good advice, but not everyone needs to run away from something. I prefer to think of it as "running towards"...towards something new, interesting and different.

heurist 10y ago
It's novel but it's an ephemeral novelty. It disappears as soon as you're home and back in your old ways. Better to understand the internal source of dissatisfaction and address it directly.

saiya-jin 10y ago

it was never about running away from anything, I was coming back in 3 months to things and people I left there. It was about adventure, exposing yourself to new situations, cultures, people, everything. every single day. it gives you huge amount of time to see yourself, introspect, experience yourself in all kinds of crazy conditions, and discover that we humans are amazing, strong beings if we try a bit. also that monetary wealth and happiness are almost mutually exclusive, but that's another topic :) as for those goals - while hiking in nepal around annapurna, i met american guy, great fella, who unknowingly changed course of my life in many ways. planted some sort of idea-seed in my head. never expected anything like that to happen, there or anywhere. best thing in my life. but for this, you cannot plan nor prepare. for sure, it won't happen while staying at home.

vlod 10y ago
> who unknowingly changed course of my life in many ways. planted some sort of idea-seed in my head. never expected anything like that to happen Any chance you can expand on this? Would love to read a blog post.