How to freak out Mom so fast...

[learnteach]

Everyone has their own reality.

I mentioned the thought of volunteering as an engineer in Latin America. Spend a year learning Spanish and teaching technology and setting up alt eng systems. Ride my motorcycle around Guatemala or one of those stories.

I'm apparently certifiably crazy for that idea. Who knew? Sounds pretty good to me...

Comments

[valgards.livejournal.com]

Moms are like that. All moms. (well, if I told my mom I was going to convert the "heathen" to God she'd probably be all for that one). She just loves you. Ignore her. It's what we all have to do.

People who cannot fathom life always look on those who insist on living it as insane.

Or, as every evil genius ina James Bond movie has said "in a world of insanity, the sane man seems mad."

Or maybe that was Chief Inspector Dreyfus.

Yours is the most sane proposal I have heard from anyone in a long time. Hasn't your mom read Che Guevara? Or Hemingway? Or Kerouac? Or, well, anything?

I know, she's just looking out for her boy.

If you don't do this I will beat you soundly about the head and shoulders. That should be motivation enough.

And, yes, I envy you. Don't be like Norm on Cheers: who told everybody he was going to dump it all and live on Fiji, then just hid out in the back of the bar for two weeks until they found him out. Go out and live. You could die in an auto accident on the 101 next year (or even tomorrow) and not have done anything this cool in your life.