05-19-2009, 02:32 AM
I can see your mom disagreeing with you, but I'm sorry she was actually upset. It is your birthday, asnd maybe the family should come spend some time with you OUT THERE FISHING...
It is funny how some people just loathe it. I get it all the time at work (mostly by women) how fishing is the most tedious and boring thing around.
I'm married to a lady that LIKES being outside (she says), but is motivated enough by comfort that there is always some reason not to...
My real answer hard for most people to get. When I'm outdoors, fishing and especially bowhunting, I feel normal. Like outdoor-ness is real and all the rest of the stuff we do; jobs, schedules, clock-watching, regular meals, TV, commuting, is stuff other people made up and I have to try to fit into, like shoes that are the right size, but totally wrong for my feet. Like it's foreign and externally enforced by pressures from outside by people who aren't like me.
Otherwise, I think it's fun. It excercises my ability to plan, scheme, dream, hope and figure out, and occassionally I'm right and get the big "pay-off".
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It is funny how some people just loathe it. I get it all the time at work (mostly by women) how fishing is the most tedious and boring thing around.
I'm married to a lady that LIKES being outside (she says), but is motivated enough by comfort that there is always some reason not to...
My real answer hard for most people to get. When I'm outdoors, fishing and especially bowhunting, I feel normal. Like outdoor-ness is real and all the rest of the stuff we do; jobs, schedules, clock-watching, regular meals, TV, commuting, is stuff other people made up and I have to try to fit into, like shoes that are the right size, but totally wrong for my feet. Like it's foreign and externally enforced by pressures from outside by people who aren't like me.
Otherwise, I think it's fun. It excercises my ability to plan, scheme, dream, hope and figure out, and occassionally I'm right and get the big "pay-off".
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