I am currently living in my parents basement. AMA

There's nothing more depressing imho than someone that doesn't want to travel, or more specifically hasn't seen the world. To me, especially as I get older, it gets harder and harder to trigger those happiness dopamine receptors, and the last remaining thing that can still trigger them in ways they did as a kid is to travel somewhere entirely unfamiliar. Seeing some crazy plants/animals that you've never seen before, hanging in a hidden lagoon in the middle of literally knowhere, surrounded by monkeys and parrots. Seeing a ridiculous Japanese robot show. Smoking some weed with some total strangers you can barely communicate with. Flirting with some entirely foreign women. Eating foods you've never heard of before. Staring at the stars on the other side of the planet with clarity you never even imagined. The list goes on.. When you're 75 you won't give two thoughts to the 40 years you spent doing fucking Avaya tech support, you'll be thinking of that time you travelled to X and had the time of your life. Don't miss out.

I normally hate cruises because I don't get the allure of being stuffed into a boat with a gazillion other people when I could be free-ranging across an island/city, but it might be a good first step for Mist.

This thread is depressing

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Mist said:

I won't lose my job if I take a vacation, but I'll lose at the very least 30% of my normal base pay for those, and use up all my vacation time, which also doubles as my sick time since we don't get sick days.

Also, I literally do not know how to travel. I've only been on three trips ever, and they were for competitions in high school (VICA, FBLA) and everything was basically arranged for me. My parents never traveled either in their adult lives, my mom traveled a lot as a kid because her father was a semi-famous pianist, and my dad saw basically all of Europe in the USMC.

We were just never in the class of people who took vacations.

I'm also just super afraid that if I ever do break out of the pattern I'm in, what happens if I don't want to ever go back?

Oh god, I'm like Morty playing Roy..."You beat cancer and then you went back to work at the carpet store?"

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Don't listen to them, just keep doing what you're doing and you'll find happyness at the end of the tunnel.

Or an oncoming train.

One of those.

a_skeleton_02 said:

In that sense Philly is the least active city in the country and Denver is the most active city.

I'm gonna have to like ride a bike or something.

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Inline skates, bike shorts, and aviators.