Not all who wander are lost. They may be just walking in circles.
Leatherman (vagabond)
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
People with comfortable enough lives sometimes have this attraction to the very romanticized versions of otherwise very hard lives. You see this with the coder who dreams of the farmer's life, or that of a "rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond", or even that of a soldier. It's probably the assumption that something that can be a nice hobby on its best days, a short escape, must also be a nice life. But it's the dose that…
> People with comfortable enough lives sometimes have this attraction to the very romanticized versions of otherwise very hard lives. You see this with the coder who dreams of the farmer's life, or that of a "rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond", or even that of a soldier. Some people even go camping for recreation .
Exactly, it's the dose that makes the poison. A week of camping is fun, a lifetime of camping is hell.
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#73"No visible human remains were recovered during the exhumation." Seeing his picture and then reading this I fully expect that he's still walking the route as a zombie and always has been a zombie.
“Residents along the route, pleased with this plucky zombie, would take to leaving out plates of offal and brain for him near the graveyard”
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OP here.. Yes, I agree that HN is the place to discover the most interesting, coolest and weirdest stuff on the internet but unfortunately, sometimes, these posts don't get enough traction in their first minutes and once they got pushed to the second page of newest submissions, they are technically dead! Fortunately, HN had introduced what's called pool , or second chance , where the mods of the site periodically wat…
I remember getting a second chance with my submission for non-explosive demolition agents. The mods didn't put it on the front page themselves but instead emailed me with an invitation to repost.
In your case, this is being called "invited": Overlooked links, invited to repost:
https://news.ycombinator.com/invited
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
People with comfortable enough lives sometimes have this attraction to the very romanticized versions of otherwise very hard lives. You see this with the coder who dreams of the farmer's life, or that of a "rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond", or even that of a soldier. It's probably the assumption that something that can be a nice hobby on its best days, a short escape, must also be a nice life. But it's the dose that…
I don't know about romanticizing a hard life but I'll definitely get hit with a very strong sense of wanting to escape and leave it all behind. It hits me every summer like clockwork tbh - leaving a nicely typed 2 minutes notice on my VP's desk and just taking my chances as a traveling beach bum. Akin to wanderlust, I'm filled with the urge to just go off into the unknown. In my heart of hearts I know I'm a soft city…
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#76I wonder what it says about me or my life that my first thought was that it sounded absolutely wonderful. I had a good stretch of time between jobs (fortunately voluntarily) a while back and ever since I have had a completely different outlook on life that is, sadly, not quite compatible with modern life. During my time unemployed my pace of life was more like it is when you are on a camping/hiking trip with a group…
It may be romanic because you have not yet understood the real life
consequences of the "lifestyle".
The problems, health risks, and stress it brings with it.
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#77Fun fact: you can visit his cave in Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Westchester county. Interesting place. Not many people around. You can sit in the cave and try to imagine the life he lived.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because he didn't scream at people, leave used needles in the street, or pass out in gutters.
”Homed” people do those things, quite often, yet I have to se any anti-vacancy laws. It is telling that society regularly outlaws afflictions like homelessness or situations like vagrancy instead of targeting the specific instances of bad behaviour that ought to be the problem.
We outlaw homelessness because we don't want homeless people on the streets littering the place.
The bad behaviours you want to be outlawed are in fact already outlawed. It's just super hard to catch and convict on those. While it's a lot easier to prove someone is sleeping rough.
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#79Crazy to me that they exempted him from the vagrancy laws. Like "Oh we can have one mysterious and entertaining vagrant".
"The law says no vagrants. We're allowed to have one."
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
People with comfortable enough lives sometimes have this attraction to the very romanticized versions of otherwise very hard lives. You see this with the coder who dreams of the farmer's life, or that of a "rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond", or even that of a soldier. It's probably the assumption that something that can be a nice hobby on its best days, a short escape, must also be a nice life. But it's the dose that…
The romanticized farmer aspect always gives me pause as well. Farming is a very difficult job that requires many hours of work every single day, every day per year. Even if you had enough money left over from some other job to get to go travel, you could never find the time to do so after becoming a farmer
As a child, I spent about 4-5 years on both a family farm and then followed by about 6-months at a large commercial egg production farm (my father took a job as the farm manager, came with free housing) - it cemented within me the desire never to toil in the fields or take care of animals outside of pets.
Yet of course - my kids and grandkids who were raised in suburban environments ALL romanticize farming...