Since my last post I cheered up. So don’t worry. I also took a few photos of me smiling. It’s all good now. Actually, my last post was probably written in that place before perspective, where the anger still boils. I’m fine.
I spent the day sleeping, due largely to my continuing fascination with The West Wing. On the weekend Keith was appalled that I left the party we were at for an hour or two to watch a couple of episodes. It wasn’t something that I was fully in control of. It was the end of the second season, I had an episode to go, what was I to do. I even missed the greater part of the free drinks period, that’s how hooked I am.
Korea is a nice place, as I have said many times before. The cuisine is delicious and the people are great. I want a change though. I want something new and different. Something environmentally and socially different. So I’m considering my options for a change. What I ultimately plan to do is travel more than I have been. It may be time to pool some resources and head out on a backpacker life for a while.
We really don’t have that many years to enjoy such a lifestyle. I am fully aware of this and the novelty of the situation is not lost on me. I try my best to live in the moment, to seek pleasure and enjoyment in all aspects. For me, there are no solid rights and wrongs, only favorables and unfavorables and even these sometimes melt into one. At the same time, I reflect on the life that I didn’t choose, the life of office work or a professional career. I have to say, I always feel so vindicated by my life or the things that I experience, and by the people I talk to who chose that. Posessions and security are certainly attractive options, but when they surround a dull life they really don’t mean much. Which is what I feel my life might be like, should I choose such a path.
I won’t be teaching English my whole life, but it’s a small comfort to know that’s always going to be available. What is interesting is that I seem to be teaching my self Korean in the process of teaching English. I’m not really trying either. I’d love to spend some time going to university here and studying the language, but the time that I can afford right now doesn’t warrant it. Should I ever meet the right girl before I leave here, then this could change. But in a whole year and a half I haven’t found one that matches my criteria, so I’m not counting on that any time soon. I’m not going to be worrying about it any time soon either.
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