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    I mean: pack a suitcase of necessities and special things, tie up some loose ends, and just leave it all behind for a while to see/experience the world?

    When I finally finish school, I am leaving the US to live/work/LIVE in a totally new country/culture. Any other deltas dream of something like this? Maybe more importantly, did you go for it?

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    Everyday of my life. I've seriously contemplated doing it multiple times. Unfortunately when you're poor, you don't have many options.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jessica129 View Post
    Everyday of my life. I've seriously contemplated doing it multiple times. Unfortunately when you're poor, you don't have many options.
    Sure you do. Google "work in [country of your choice]" and see what comes up... you might be surprised (I was!). And if it's a country of English-speaking people or you're fluent in whatever language they use, all the better.

    Where would you like to go, Jessica?

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    This is a very STRONG desire of mine. I want to break away and experience new things. *sigh* I am currently contemplating it. We'll see what happens. I have to believe that I'll be able to make it happen one way or another, otherwise the future looks very bleak.

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    That sort of seems to be the irrational delta creedo. Numerous delta irrationals have expressed this to me.

    I have a little urge to explore myself - I'd really like to travel for a few years and learn about the world, if I could. But it doesn't seem to be quite the same thing as ISTps and ENFps.
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    Quote Originally Posted by UDP View Post
    That sort of seems to be the irrational delta creedo. Numerous delta irrationals have expressed this to me.

    I have a little urge to explore myself - I'd really like to travel for a few years and learn about the world, if I could. But it doesn't seem to be quite the same thing as ISTps and ENFps.
    I think that it's due to a disregard for the small things that might happen in a particular trip that make them assume that traveling is awesome, but I think it's more of the "escape from regular life" factor (I know I'm being very negative ). For example, you can go to Rome wanting to feel mesmerized by the sights. However, it just so happens that the sights are also a major tourist attraction where more than half of the people there are from other countries particularly asian, the locals smoke like there is no tomorrow, and if you don't know the ins and outs you'll get charged more than what you should be paying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jessica129 View Post
    Everyday of my life.
    Just, you know, for extra emphasis:

    EVERY.DAY.OF.MY.LIFE.

    Quote Originally Posted by songofsappho View Post
    Sure you do. Google "work in [country of your choice]" and see what comes up... you might be surprised (I was!). And if it's a country of English-speaking people or you're fluent in whatever language they use, all the better.

    Where would you like to go, Jessica?
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    Quote Originally Posted by songofsappho View Post
    Sure you do. Google "work in [country of your choice]" and see what comes up... you might be surprised (I was!). And if it's a country of English-speaking people or you're fluent in whatever language they use, all the better.

    Where would you like to go, Jessica?
    If i can't even manage to make ends meet here, I don't know how i'd do it somewhere else, haha. I don't know where i'd like to go. No place really stands out as particularly interesting to me. I have a feeling i'd get wherever it was I really wanted to be only to want to pick up and go somewhere else. And this, let me tell you, sucks. I stay in my current situation only because I know my wants and desires change daily.

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    Wow - very passionate responses. I guess this may be an ISTp thing after all, huh? I'm really glad to know I'm not alone.


    Quote Originally Posted by Sirena View Post
    This is a very STRONG desire of mine. I want to break away and experience new things. *sigh* I am currently contemplating it. We'll see what happens. I have to believe that I'll be able to make it happen one way or another, otherwise the future looks very bleak.
    Just go for it. If you devote one or two years at least, you will at least have satisfied the urge and at most have changed - improved! - your life for the better. What an adventure!

    Quote Originally Posted by LokiVanguard View Post
    Just, you know, for extra emphasis:

    EVERY.DAY.OF.MY.LIFE.



    You rock.
    Haha, me too. Every day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jessica129 View Post
    If i can't even manage to make ends meet here, I don't know how i'd do it somewhere else, haha. I don't know where i'd like to go. No place really stands out as particularly interesting to me. I have a feeling i'd get wherever it was I really wanted to be only to want to pick up and go somewhere else. And this, let me tell you, sucks. I stay in my current situation only because I know my wants and desires change daily.
    Have a little faith... in the universe, in your own industriousness... I'm sure you'd make it just fine so long as you find a good place with good people.

    Quote Originally Posted by UDP View Post
    That sort of seems to be the irrational delta creedo. Numerous delta irrationals have expressed this to me.

    I have a little urge to explore myself - I'd really like to travel for a few years and learn about the world, if I could. But it doesn't seem to be quite the same thing as ISTps and ENFps.
    Yes... it is irrational in so many ways. But that's what makes it "right!"

    Quote Originally Posted by msq View Post
    Well, that's what I did when I was about 18. I finished school, packed my backpack and moved to Scotland to go to uni. I took 2 gap years (originally meant to be just 1), but now i'm back in the game. I want to finish my course, get some experience in my field and move again. I can't be bothered to learn another foreign language though, I'm too lazy
    How awesome! So you lived the dream, then. I'm sure you have loads of stories....

    Alright, Deltas - where shall we go? I'm thinking the Mediterranean, perhaps.

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    Maybe. All I know is that if could get paid for being a "Professional Wanderer" i'd so do it in a heart beat.
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    Well, that's what I did when I was about 18. I finished school, packed my backpack and moved to Scotland to go to uni. I took 2 gap years (originally meant to be just 1), but now i'm back in the game. I want to finish my course, get some experience in my field and move again. I can't be bothered to learn another foreign language though, I'm too lazy
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    Quote Originally Posted by songofsappho View Post
    I mean: pack a suitcase of necessities and special things, tie up some loose ends, and just leave it all behind for a while to see/experience the world?

    When I finally finish school, I am leaving the US to live/work/LIVE in a totally new country/culture. Any other deltas dream of something like this? Maybe more importantly, did you go for it?
    Whoa, yeah.

    As soon as I became old enough, (18,) I moved to England... When I was 19, I moved to Germany w/o knowing the language... During that year, I traveled across Europe (all directions.) After that, while getting my bachelor's, I moved across country (U.S.) several times, e.g. Bos-San Fran-Bos-San Fran (again)-Chi-CT, etc... I've taken bus trips to see the U.S. To see it differently, I've gone by train... Would like to do it by car.

    This is just how I am, I believe--I really enjoy it... Right now i'm getting my master's--thus i feel temporarily tied down to this place, (New Haven, CT)--so I'm figuring out different ways to 'leave it all behind' and check out new things.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JuJu View Post
    Whoa, yeah.

    As soon as I became old enough, (18,) I moved to England... When I was 19, I moved to Germany w/o knowing the language... During that year, I traveled across Europe (all directions.) After that, while getting my bachelor's, I moved across country (U.S.) several times, e.g. Bos-San Fran-Bos-San Fran (again)-Chi-CT, etc... I've taken bus trips to see the U.S. To see it differently, I've gone by train... Would like to do it by car.

    This is just how I am, I believe--I really enjoy it... Right now i'm getting my master's--thus i feel temporarily tied down to this place, (New Haven, CT)--so I'm figuring out different ways to 'leave it all behind' and check out new things.
    Ah! That must have been amazing, going to a country where you didn't even speak the language. And so young! Like I said, I'm waiting anxiously to finish this round of school, and then I'm outta here. The funny thing about that is, I really have a fantastic life here, but I know that if I don't go now while I'm young and relatively free, I'll regret it for the rest of my life. From your post, JuJu, it looks like this may be a lifelong thing, though... all the better, I say!

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    Quote Originally Posted by songofsappho View Post
    I mean: pack a suitcase of necessities and special things, tie up some loose ends, and just leave it all behind for a while to see/experience the world?

    When I finally finish school, I am leaving the US to live/work/LIVE in a totally new country/culture. Any other deltas dream of something like this? Maybe more importantly, did you go for it?
    i'm just back in front of the comp. This thread made my eyes go 0_0. I've only been doing my homework for a day and I already find myself contemplating this. SERIOUSLY!!!

    I might do it too. But i don't like planning these things too much. It works better when I do it on a whim.

    Yeah, but I better get back to my homework. 1 more month. GRRR
    plus change freedom is coming ahhhhhhhhh
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    YES!! It is absolutely imperative that I experience as much of the world as possible before I die.
    I get so excited when I think about all of the radically different places I am going to live and people I am going to meet.
    I'm actually working on my Master's in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) for the very purpose of being able to move around the world. I'm so excited!!!
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    If you have the financial means for that, great. You can have the time of your life maybe but later down the road you'd have to settle. Depends on how well-off you are.

    I'm a poor white trash hick so yeah. I like seeing other people's cultures occasionally, I am very liberal but eventually it just seems kind of long-winded and like I can't really force myself to care. I am just way too ambivalent about everything. Plus if you get to know somebody "from another culture" you eventually get to hear about how they don't like a certain group of people -yet they think THEY are the all-purpose victims of the world.

    It gets to be a little grating.

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    Quote Originally Posted by songofsappho View Post
    I mean: pack a suitcase of necessities and special things, tie up some loose ends, and just leave it all behind for a while to see/experience the world?

    When I finally finish school, I am leaving the US to live/work/LIVE in a totally new country/culture. Any other deltas dream of something like this? Maybe more importantly, did you go for it?
    I have a *tendency* to do this. My friends have learned that they have to be OK with me dropping off the face of the earth for months or even years.
    To this day I refuse to own furniture. And periodically paring my belongings is downright soothing an activity. I recently counted, and I have six pairs of jeans. And that's too many! I have twelve workshirts, when I could get (and in the past, have gotten) by with just five ...
    I once owned a 1981 2-door Chevette, and I moved in it 6 times - 5 times in one carload.
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    Yes I've done it before.

    I took nothing with me, just my wallet and some of my own cash.

    I took a taxi down to church, just wondering if God is good enough to forgive a shithole wretch like me. Apparently He was.

    I felt good. Then my dad came along and fetched me home. Pussy of a father. My mother didn't even care cos she's too cool to care.

    My pastor taught me this prayer, "Lord Jesus have mercy on me, a sinner."

    How apt.

    Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a fucking wretch like me.

    If God hates me I'll go to hell. I hope he doesn't.

    I think it's said somewhere that he loves everyone. It's also said somewhere that His love is with the righteous. I think unless by some unconventional logic, that if Christ wasn't my great high priest, I'll definitely be condemned to eternal suffering. Either that, or he'll just burn the demons out of this screwed up soul I have. And this shitty body that's always craving for sex and shit like that. And this horrible mouth that can' stop spouting vulgarities no matter how hard I try.

    I hate life in general, but I believe I must change it.

    For those little kittens that are under my care, I will change it and save this shithole from itself.

    Like Ezra, I believe that I am cursed/blessed with some shitty super powers. It's called wit, bipolaric self-esteem, and an extreme contempt for the one weapon I know I've hidden under my sleeve for so long, TheBlueBlade of violence and vengeful punishment.

    Yes. My blade was made for cutting, for those who did not realize. And for protecting my kittens, and enforcing brute, lethal and elegant violence upon those who endanger them.

    And it's blue, a symbol of peace.

    And it is THEblueblade, because it hates you, since you hate me.

    And yes. It's fucking mine and it's in my possession.

    Oh. I think I hate you too.
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