[GreatWhite]

Originally Posted by wind_magic

Is it really a choice between two equally good things ?

I will say it this way - a five year old could make the choice without any problems at all. Hmm, go to work every day, or sail on a boat everyday ? Wow that is a really hard choice isn't it.

I understand the pull in both directions, truly, but I wonder if it is really a pull in two directions because of the actual desire to be in both places at the same time. Put it another way, if you had all the money you could reasonably want, would the choice still be hard to make, would you still be wishing you were sitting there at home and going to work everyday because its so much fun ?

Maybe the real choice isn't between two really great things, but rather on the one hand a life that has a lot of security, predictability, creature comfort, etc, and on the other hand a life that is filled with fun and excitement, but doesn't have all the other things. If so then I don't really think the decision is between two really great things as much as it is a decision about whether the one really great thing is worth the risk.

Yes and no...

Some days going to work feels so wrong and I can't believe we're not cruising. There are days where my body hurts from sitting in an office and being on the computer too long or days where it just feel that it is so difficult and pointless to toil away in an office with all the stuff that goes along with that environment...

But I know some days will be also be challenging when we are out cruising... days where stuff breaks... the kids are cranky...

I think the difference will be the good days. A good day sailing is WAY better
than a good day at work.

Is it safe to say?: 'a bad day sailing is better than a good day at work.'