It’s so bad that I missed my first day of writing, and I just published and back-dated the previous post to say June 1. What a shame. It’s not like I had no time to do it. In fact I had all the time in the world. Jeezus.
Anyway we’re so far down this rabbit hole that we’ve convinced ourselves that we need to go to Bali to live. Reasons are as follows:
- It’s a really bad time to be living in the USA. We followed the rules and the system and I guess somewhere we were supposed to know that if you want to get ahead, you don’t follow or ogle the system—you simple say fuck it and do it your way.
- Bali is multi-beautiful. Warm, tropical, friendly, spiritual. Children are revered. World-class waves. A great perspective on who we are, where we belong, what kind if potential we have.
- Not bad from a cost perspective. We can live affordably while giving (me) a chance to re-build my career from its lowly, sickly state. I’d like to say I feel like Lance Armstrong when he had ball cancer—it makes me feel like I have come back into the person I’m supposed to really be.
- It’s awesome for the kids. Part of the American dream—the new American dream—is to be educated in the ways of the world outside of our borders. Our children would get some serious cred if they spent time in a foreign country.
- The timing is spot on. One out of high school, one a year left to start kindergarten and the others fairly well-adjusted to homescool, even though we all agree it’s not that great for everyone.
- It wil get us out of this town. Nuff said.
Then we get scared (the most common and most powerful symptom of being depressed in this town) and the list of doubts come up:
- We can’t afford to get there or sustain ourselves there. The Indo government makes it super-hard for foreigners to work, which I respect. So that means we need to come up with all the funds to live there for 6 months in icy green cash upfront. It’s about $21,000. Ouch.
- It’s a hail-Mary attempt. Not totally out of consideration, but you gotta ask yourself: really?
Oh wow: the positives outweigh the negatories. Does that mean we should go?