My P.A.D. is back...

[caveman]

Originally Posted by ISV Venture Star

I'm feeling it again too. So here I am, back on an Avatar forum after many months away.

This happened to me way back in February. I posted "my last post", but soon PAD grew and grew until I had to return a couple weeks later. The reason: I never learned my lessons. PAD is a learning experience.

Avatar showed us a life with every fundamental aspect to living a healthy, happy life. If you long for this life, if you have PAD, you need to learn how to develop these aspects into your own life.

If you are coming back here because of PAD, it means you are still missing something in your life that is depicted in Avatar. I recommend you join that thread, myself and other members can help recognize what you need to be happy, with or without Pandora. Hope that helps; I know what its like, I've had re-occurring PAD experiences this whole time. I'm still searching for that something that's missing....

Originally Posted by Fkeu'itan

I recently got a job. Now, it's a great job. Involves a lot of outdoors work and helping the environment but it also involves timetables, dress codes, paperwork, hours, shifts, rates of pay... just like any other job.

I think a different perspective might make working easier, and more enjoyable. You have a great job it sounds like, but there are faults. I know how you feel, not so much about the job, but just wanting to get away from "the system" and "the rules". (This is for you too FoW) But I think its important to understand the positives that come out of all this. You working, even if it has its faults, allows you to make a difference. That's great. What's more? Using this system can help you escape the system. I know a lot of people, most people for that matter work all week so they can enjoy going out and doing the things they want to on weekends. So as tough as working and being around modern society is, you can use it as a tool to get out of it. Work so you can afford to travel or take survival classes or just go camping.

I understand, modern society can be a b!tch, but it can also be a valuable tool to living the way you want to. You just have to learn how to use this tool while avoiding the disadvantages and safety hazards. Get what I'm saying.

As much as I want to get away from the corporate world, I know it is probably my only way of getting to the destinations I want to go to.

Originally Posted by Fkeu'itan

Seems that life isn't for living anymore.

I know what ya mean. I keep saying this: "living is feeling". Think about it, if you can't feel anything -physically or emotionally - then you're dead. The only way we know we're alive is by feeling the world around us. So what I'm getting at is our society is moving towards more and more numbness, moving towards death. You need to find a way to always be feeling. Even if it means splashing water on your face after a day at the office. I'm going to stop now because I could go on all day about what "living" is, but I understand you friend.

Hope that helps everybody!