Lemonade and Nomads

baute · Senior Member

Lemonade and Nomads

Dougwe · Chief one feather

That's baute, Baute. I left my previous life behind only a couple of Months back due to quite a few "Lemons" that came my way over a short few years. I now have a positive outlook and enjoying the playground with hopefully very small "Lemons" but better still, none at all.

yeoeleven · Guru

I had a big bag of lemons delivered simultaneously when my wife asked me to move out in 2010, I could have sucked them and got very depressed but instead found the silver lining and the last 4 years have been the best of my life with more to come.

Another bonus will occur in February when I have booked a cruise with my wife who now wants me to move back in, no chance.

Maintain a positive attitude and expect the best to come, it works for me.

John

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Lemonade is sweet - just like the nomad life!!!

baute · Senior Member

Thanks Doug, John and Jules your words and stories give me inspiration. My excitement is hiding under the lemons I am presently squeezing to find the juice! I sold everything I owned and moved interstate in 2006 so I think the universe is sending me a message, IT'S Time. Funny part about all this is I have lived in my present location for the last 6 years which is a record for me, I usually move on every couple of years. I also am on a record breaker with my job 4 years, usually only keep the same job for 2 years. I foolishly thought I could pretend I was one of those stable people who lived in the same place, had the same job year in year out. But the Nomad in me is screaming GET OUT! So who am I to argue !

Ame25 · Senior Member

Hi Baute, don't waste time squeezing those lemons, just toss them out. Next find a bullet and bite it and get out there and do what makes you happy. Life is too short. Good luck. Colleen

baute · Senior Member

Thanks Colleen just what I am doing.

meetoo · Guru

Hi baute, a tip I was given here just last week is to take baby steps, and to know that the bad days will get further apart.

Also time is a great healer.

Cheers, John

baute · Senior Member

Thanks John (meetoo) Im a trying not to have meltdown. Whilst waiting for my roof to be tarped today the sewer backed up through the kitchen sink. Luckily I have great owners who are doing their utmost and different circumstances have led to the current wear and tear housing issues. They left me smiling so all is good while I await the plumber :) baby steps is good advice

kandagal · Guru

What cruise are you doing John?

yeoeleven · Guru

kandagal wrote:
What cruise are you doing John?

Only a small one by your standards Alice, just a 7 day round trip with 3 stopovers in the South Pacific setting off on the 7th Feb and returning on the 14th.

John

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Cheers,

Peter

baute · Senior Member

Big smile here Peter I have seen that poem somewhere before: Sort of a personal motto of someone I know quite well :)

-- Edited by baute on Sunday 14th of December 2014 09:47:24 AM

spida · Guru

Chuck a big dash of gin in it:) The life on the road should have you completely relaxed and at one with yourself in no time at all. The further away from civilization the better I find.

baute · Senior Member

Sh............. just sneaking back in here, I have been lurking. This topic has been my self therapy. Mmmmmmmmmm I have been in therapy for 6 months so it seems. Thanks all who gave me encouragement before. Love that Robert Frost poem, I could read it over and over. Anyway, I am on the return. Just resigned from that job with bad management, I am a slow learner! Just gave notice on my lovely home which is still under repair, I am patient so it seems. So in 2 weeks I am an unemployed self funded early retiree. In 4 weeks I am a homeless waif looking for my next adventure. Oh dear life is hard sometimes but I am excited underneath my fear. Sorry for bumping this topic but hey I need the therapy. The road is long and as Mr Frost said two roads well I am on a new one soon. :) Hopefully I will have some interesting tales to tell soon :)

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Don't worry about "bumping" this topic mate, it's your topic biggrin

I have said many times that this forum is my therapy.

Don't let the very near future or far future for that matter worry you, you will enjoy every minute out here and think to yourself, ????

Why didn't I do that sooner.

Keep Safe mate.

baute · Senior Member

Thanks Doug your words mean much at this time of change. The experiences of many on this forum give confidence. My own travels so far have led me to believe that out there is where I need to be. Can't wait to leave this rat race. Life is too short.