Yep… there’s one thing you can always count on… Change. Not too much ever remains the same. Life goes on it’s merry way for a while and than sooner or later… Change is coming our way. The trick is to know when to just go with the flow of the change… or get out of Dodge. Seems like when you emotionally try to deal with or resist the change, less desirable things seem to start piling up… and piling up more and more. You may be use to those things happening in a conventional lifestyle… job, house, bills, taxes, etc, and having to deal with them, usually with a bit of frustration, and a certain degree of… “You just have to live with it”. But Full-time Rving is a bit different. After all, we choose this lifestyle to get out of the normal “having to live with it” and the frustration of making our life fit the change that’s forced upon us. So Rvers are a bit more of a free spirit… more or less flowing with the change, or more likely, leaving it behind… and not fighting to have our life work around the changes… we simply pull up stakes and move on to something more to our liking. In simplest terms, this usually involves the weather. Head north in the summer and south in the winter. But it pretty much applies to all changes in life, and not just the weather. The real trick is too know when to make the move away from a changing situation that is becoming less desirable before it becomes frustrating and worry some. Pull up stakes and move on rather than push a bad situation that can only get worse, knowing that things are going to keep changing, usually not for the better, and things will never be the same as they once were. So, gentlemen, start your engines, put it in gear and go!
That’s were we are at right now. Feeling like we are pushing a bad situation hoping to keep things as they once were. It’s time once again to either “live with the change” or pull up stakes and move on to something more desirable. And that’s the good thing about Rving… something doesn’t soot you… just simply move on.
But it was nice while it lasted… and there’s always the lofty day dream thought that we wish we could just relive that perfect day, or that perfect season, over and over again, at least for a while. Reality has a different plan.
Being creatures of habit, we all like the stable situation, but not much is stable forever… and change is gonna get ya sooner or later. Rving lets you leave the aggravation and frustration behind, before the change gets too worry some… ya just gotta make the mental and emotional jump… pull up stakes and leave for something better… some where out there in the great unknown. Looking for the next perfect situation is certainly better than fighting the change at the current situation and having worry some frustration which usually doesn’t get you to a good place anyway. So hitch up the wagon and set off into the sunset… there’s always something better waiting for you to find it. Staying one step ahead of the changes we don’t want to, or have to live with. Yep… that’s the ticket.
So when it starts to pile up, there’s your first clue, that’s it’s gonna keep getting deeper, more frustrating, more worry some, and it’s time to move on… ya just need to know when to go, before it bothers you too much, and you start to loose sleep over it. ( notice the time of this entry ).
Pretty much applies to most situations in life… it’s all a matter of where you are at in life… and if you have to deal with or live with the changes forced upon you… or have the freedom and the mental toughness to move on.
Seeya down the road… there’s always something better waiting for you. That next perfect day, perfect week or month, or that perfect season. It won’t last forever… but that’s why Rv’s have wheels.
Hopefully good advise for you, for me, and helpful to others caught up in change, that’s not exactly for the better.
I once heard an analogy about a frog and hot water. The frog was in cool water that started to get warmer and warmer, and eventually hotter and hotter, until it killed him. The change was gradual but kept getting worse and worse, bit by bit… guess he thought he could live with the change… until it was too late. Had he not been in the situation from the start, he would have never hoped into the hot water realizing the bad situation, and suffered and died. Gradual change, bit by bit, getting worse and worse, well… it may not kill you like the frog… but well being and happiness will certainly continue to take a hit… until there’s nothing left.
The dedicated employee of today’s business and economic environment, needs to realize that dedication is usually a one way street. You were, and are simply a business asset until you are no longer needed, and dedication only goes one way… any other thought on this concept is merely an illusion by the company to gain your dedication to them while they still need you. The water gets very hot… very quickly. Sad to say that this is the work environment that is being socially cultured today. No wonder young people have little or no sense of dedication to the company they work for… they are a product of the reality of their situation created by business. And it seems that they are much better off then the older folks that still believe in dedication and work ethic… reality hits them harder… and their illusion shedders, and is usually more emotionally destructive. Yep, a sad state of affairs indeed for the future. A companies dedication to you is limited to that hourly wage (while you are still needed), young people realize that the same applies in reverse… and their dedication doesn’t go beyond that same hourly wage… and why should it? … really. Perhaps there’s another underlying argument to be made here for dedication… but somewhere down the line, reality will end that argument too. Ya work an hour, get paid for an hour, beyond that, the company dedicates to nothing but business, employees are just like any product or service they sell, until it’s no longer needed.
Didn’t mean to go all serious… most times I just never know where I end up when writing. Just something to think about.
Have to do a least one serious entry every so often… see… Goofy takes a break!
