I laid out on the beach today thinking of the future. On the one hand I have my business in Toronto and all of my new, interesting and healthy minded friends here. On the other hand....Asia.
I have emerged from my self-imposed sabbatical as a support system for a couple of people that I have been known for years that are facing some challenges these days. (Don't you just love that term...challenges)
I revel in the fact that I can help them with some sound advice and some support that validates them as people. I also am helping strangers with their addiction issues through the business I am running.
No I am not thinking I am Mr selfless, I know that being open to helping others is actually helping myself. Not a big secret. I don't need the Zohar to decipher my intentions on this one.
I have been offered a job in CHINA that starts very soon and I am heavily weighing the options.
That being said, this city is getting very old for me. Why people say. It has all of this theatre and sports, and the film festival and more restaurants than most cities on earth. It's a liberal creative melting pot of joy.
Ok, I get it. It's an interesting place to visit or to live if you haven't spent more than 30 years here. It can also start to get to you slightly after decades of seeing the same street corners and the same bars and the same schools and the same.....the idea being that it is a redundant vacuum for me on most days. Just too many hours spent here.
However, let me be politically correct. Where ever a person moves to, they can't get away from one thing. Themselves.
So if you are running from yourself, not a good reason to leave. If you can't face yourself in the mirror and eat a bag of cookies for breakfast or have a pint of vodka for lunch to help cope, not a good sign.
Not feeling the self-love?, A geographical cure probably will not change you.
If you rely on your significant other to make you feel whole (most do) and they just bailed out on you because you are a massive robotic bore, moving cities, may not be the answer either.
I am thinking that I can run my RECRUITING business from anywhere that a phone and a computer can get some reception. That does sound encouraging.
So why not run it for a while from the land of the nameless faceless masses. The land of hope and revolution and environmental genocide.
There is an interesting school that is in the country in one of the Eastern provinces of China. Also it is not too far from Hong Kong, one of my favourite cities in the world.
It is kind of a complex in the middle of god knows where. A mountain or a field possibly. It is modern though, and offers free meals and room and board, a gym and a pool, as well as a fairly good salary, considering my expenses will be next to nothing.
Except for my Vespa and wherever that dream can take me.
Teaching kids is exhausting but incredibly rewarding,(check) I truly get a natural high from it (check), and I believe I am fairly good at it. (check)
They are usually very eager to learn all the nuances of western life and whatever cool extras you can give them. I would probably share with them my feelings about OBAMA and REALITY DATING SHOWS or something off the beaten path. Invaluable information of the ages.
Just the idea of making a move brings all those juices to the surface, flowing again.
Keep moving, keep growing, keep searching, it`s all good.
What about the woman who I am spending time with. This is surely an issue. Let me think, it is certainly an honest conversation sooner than later, especially if she reads this tonight.
If it is meant to be, which I have no idea about at this point, you know, it will be.
Who would want to spend their life with a restless, unfulfilled, spiritual guy that doesn`t follow his dreams and take chances anyway.
Hopefully I can still live a semi altruistic lifestyle; (FOR SURE) even if my day begins and ends in China, the next frontier. (a little different from Toronto`s homogeneous Chinatown)
THOUGHTS BECOME WORDS, WORDS BECOME ACTIONS AND ACTIONS BECOME............TOUGH CHOICE.
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