re: What Makes an Interesting Life

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PurpleandGold Motown

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What defines a life well lived? What makes a life worth living?

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This is a question akin to going into a gym with many folks who appear to be in-shape and asking each one individually, "How do you get in shape?"

You will hear some common themes but you will for the most part hear as many different answers as you will ask different people. Interesting to one person is dull to another person.

I have a friend who spent years in the military traveling overseas in Asia, Europe in-between jaunts into military hot-zones where America was intervening in the Middle East and putting wounded servicemen and women back together again. His idea of a great life is drinking Bourbon, listening to Outlaw Country and hunting & fishing every day for the rest of his existence.

I have two other friends who built a bar and a travel company for a guy who owned property outside of Venice, Italy. They stayed with him for years, made him a pile, then moved to London, then LA and then came back home.

The stories both of these guys tell are fascinating to me. That they both reside back in Livingston Parish is interesting to me. That they have both tasted of such different experiences and yet chose to come back to where we all live is fascinating.

I think they experienced and still experience different lives and yet they're both interesting. Hell I've never spent a day of my life living outside of the LP and I've had a f*cking blast myself.

I think you are just experiencing a yearn for change is all. My advice: Shake things up.