Question by : Why would he gave everything up just to live this way?
My boyfriend is a cultural anthropologist for living, so that mean he’s out of the country a lot. I don’t really know much detail about most things he do. He’d just talk about the country and other things, but never say what actually happen to him. He usually says he can’t take me or he’d just make an excuse. So when I found out he’d be in Czech for two days, I beg him to take me and make it a week so we can go together. I end up went with him.
It was a nightmare! After his job was done, he doesn’t want to pay for the hotel, so we end up stay in hostel where it was uncomfortable and creepy! He doesn’t even seem bothered by it. He went to stranger’s place for dinner simply because they invite him, need to stop by at same tobacco store everyday just to talk to the same worker everyday before we do anything, refuse to pay attention to my tourist guidance book, etc… Then when he got fed up, he let me take lead and refuse to help me whenever I did something wrong.
Once we got back, I talked to a couple of his friends about this. They all say that they’re not surprise and that I have it very easy. They say he have been in two airplane crashes because he trust some pilot who own a airplane that are falling apart, got stuck in a city northern in Russia where winter was so bad that no transport would come for a month, had a car broke down in middle of desert in Africa, end up in a place with land mines, and other crazy things.
So I tried to talk to my boyfriend and ask him to change his job and if he did do that, I’d do anything for him. I even told him I’d stay home and take care of every chores in the house so he never have to take care of any chores for rest of his life, he can have any pets he want, he can collect anything and keep it in house, etc…
To my shock, he says he enjoy living like this too much to give it up. Why would he want to live like this? I have went to couple states and I never need to do anything crazy to be happy but for him… It is just not good enough.
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Answer by annalyzedgourds
He is blessed by what he has and doesn’t need more. It is a lucky human that can learn to be content with what they have.
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He sounds very interesting and unconventional. It seems he likes adventure. He seems to take risks that most of us would never dream of taking in a million years.