I saw the article on the Yahoo homepage:
http://men.style.com/details/features/full?id=content_9817&
I admire him a lot. I’m a recent university graduate, and I feel like my life as it is lacks meaning. Sure, I need a job, but even if I had one, so what? I’d just be spending most of my life working for someone who’ll be paying me but at best would never really care about me. Is there any intrinsic meaning to it? I personally don’t care about being rich, it’s not like having a house or nice car or nice clothes would make me happier. But I live in a society where that’s valued. I lack passion in anything in life, and without a job will be nothing more than something to pay the bills.
However I have two problems with living that lifestyle:
1. I’m still an intellectual person. Even if I were homeless I’d still want to go to the library sometimes and read.
2. I might never find a girlfriend/wife, but even if I lived with money I might not find one either.
But even if I don’t exactly live like him, how do I get his life experiences – working in an Ecuadorean village, living in a Buddhist monastery, etc? I don’t know where to look for that sort of thing and with my degree in computer science I doubt I’ll be qualified for a job or volunteering.
And if I do, how do I get his survival skills?
