I must lead a boring life ?

[Olddaddy]

Is it just me?

Time after time I read on here il you guys travelling to different places some within weeks ,some posters are one month in Brazil the week after in Germany then in Thailand!

Travelling the World for sex, if only I had the time and money 

I must lead a boring life compared to some of you 

 

[Londoner]

It's because my life is boring here that I strive to get away from it....to Thailand!

[Olddaddy]

Just now, Londoner said:

It's because my life is boring here that I strive to get away from it....to Thailand!

Make the move ! 

[Mavica]

10 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

I must lead a boring life compared to some of you 

Don't believe everything you read.  👽

[PeterRS]

I once read a fascinating book The Nature of Personal Reality. Effectively it suggests that we are all conditioned by our upbringing (pretty obvious) and that the way we lead our lives is to a large extent conditioned by what is instilled in us from birth by our parents and family. If we are going to carve out a reality for ourselves, we have to work quite hard mentally to find a way to break free from at least some of these early beliefs.

From a young age I wanted to get away from home. Initially it was nothing to do with being gay, but that changed. I just wanted somehow to find a job that would take me away from my home country and give me the opportunity of seeing more of the world. It took some years but eventually I found myself in Asia in my late 20s. For most of the time it was Hong Kong, a territory I knew virtually nothing about before I landed at the old Kai Tak airport. Almost instantly I fell madly in love with the place - even though it still had the old British colonial anti-sodomy law on the statute books (this was not repealed until around 1990). That turned out to be no barrier to forming relationships with the stunning young guys I was to meet there.

My second piece of luck was that there were virtually no westerners in the region working in my particular field. So within just a few years I was travelling reguarly all around Asia mostly on business trips but with a free week-end in the middle. I felt I had hit the jackpot. I stil remember so many of the guys I met in various countries decades ago. Andy from Blue Boy in Kuala Lumpur with whom I spent two blissful nights in just my second year. Armando in Manila. Yusuke and a six month affair in Tokyo. Sombat in Bangkok. Yoick in Seoul. David a model in Qingdao. Jonathan from Taiwan and a five year affair. Fai whom I saw frequently in Singapore.

Before that move, I was given a multitude of advice about why moving to Hong Kong would be wrong for me and the career path I thought I wanted. I admit I was also full of doubts. But it was a 2 year contract with my Board having an option on a third. In the end that just seemed a small period earlyish in my life I might lose if I found I just did not like either the work or Asia. Rarely if ever I have I found life boring. It only took a couple of years before I'd be landing again at Kai Tak and realising I was home. And Asia has been my home since then.

[scott456]

I wish I could go to church with my bf.

[TMax]

I know I lead a boring life (well some may think so) but I am happy with that, before the pandemic I travelled once a year mostly to Thailand but have been many times to the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore. Unless something else untoward occurs I shall restart my travelling next year, starting with my Thailand lost time catch up trip but I have plans to return to the other above mentioned countries at some stage. In the mean time I shall plod along with my boring but happy life😁

[PeterRS]

16 hours ago, TMax said:

In the mean time I shall plod along with my boring but happy life😁

Isn't a key part of life to be happy, however we achieve that happiness - barring robbing  bank or something similar, of course? Keep enjoying it.

[Olddaddy]

20 hours ago, scott456 said:

I wish I could go to church with my bf.

Wasn't that exciting 😁

But I must go back this Sunday thanks for reminding me ,that's how exciting that was 🤣

[Olddaddy]

19 hours ago, TMax said:

I know I lead a boring life (well some may think so) but I am happy with that, before the pandemic I travelled once a year mostly to Thailand but have been many times to the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore. Unless something else untoward occurs I shall restart my travelling next year, starting with my Thailand lost time catch up trip but I have plans to return to the other above mentioned countries at some stage. In the mean time I shall plod along with my boring but happy life😁

I think your in Australia too ?

[TMax]

1 hour ago, Olddaddy said:

I think your in Australia too ?

Correct, in Western Australia👍

[a-447]

It's easy to get bored in Western Australia. You have to make your own fun here.

That's one reason why we travel so much.

[vinapu]

4 hours ago, a-447 said:

It's easy to get bored in Western Australia. You have to make your own fun here.

That's one reason why we travel so much.

Don't you guys have hands in Western Australia to tidy you over in your hour of need? 

[Olddaddy]

4 hours ago, a-447 said:

It's easy to get bored in Western Australia. You have to make your own fun here.

That's one reason why we travel so much.

You have more there than us over in Eastern Australia,love to explore all the goldfields you have there 

All those tough miners in Kalgoorlie,I wonder if Grinder is busy there😍