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I need my salary to pay the rent of my appartment and I sure would make a good use of a year off. This said I’m definitely not interested in becoming financially independent. I somehow associate security to death and chaos to creativity. I like the feeling of being on the edge, not by seeking danger but rather by avoiding excessive stability.

The current trend of seeking security by looking for a civil service job and desesperately getting a thirty years loan to own a house makes me uncomfortable. How would these people adapt to the loss of something they believe indestructible? What unacceptable things may they accept just because they are locked into paying for that loan? Is this security?

I recently quit a comfortable position of director to accept a new 15% less paid job, doing something I had little expertise, just to kick my ass and train my adaptability.

This way I’ve never been afraid of loosing my position and have always been able to say anything to anybody without any serious risk. Behavioral independence has no price.

Putting adaptability before security is something I’ll keep doing.

... I can elaborate strategies to plug them.

That’s how I always do and it works.

Hopefully I’ve always been able to do this :-)

A population of less than 300.000 with only 189.000 outside Reykjavík, in a country large a a fifth of France. You can easily drive a full hour without seeing anyone on road n°1.
Not a surprise the NASA did the Mars Pathfinder testing in Iceland. Nowhere else on earth could you see comparable landscapes: pillow lavas, basalt columns, geysers, icebergs in a lagoon, glacial tongues, ice caves, the mid-atlantic ridge, waterfalls by dozens, acid mud springs, forests of trees high as your shoulders, fjords, the arctic ocean, hot springs (not as common as you would expect: plan your bath). surprisingly colored mountains (red, yellow, ...), ...

Enjoy reading the Icelandic Sagas under the midnight sun :-)

Caution, everything is extravagantly expensive there: count around 15 €/$ for a takeaway sandwich. Not much cheaper if you go to a small supermaket. Make sure your trip is ALL inclusive. Make sure your taste Iceland specialities though. I definitely prefer dried fish to puffin.

I just can’t compete.

Just sit on the couch with a whiskey and watch the little one do the job. So relaxing…

from a great serie

An online PDA makes the difference.

Definitely worth doing. No doubt.

Thanks Steve.

I used to cope but now tend to miss a few trends these days.

Definitely worth (re)doing.

I’d love to swim also.

I learned more afterwards

I loved the movie so much I read this little book in a single pass.

On a surf board, you put your weight on the back foot to get more control. On a snowboard, this makes you move forward faster which is very uncorfortable when you were trying to get more control.
Another difference is the paddling ;-)

I yet have to watch a sunrise on the opposite shore.

I wonder how I never broke my neck.

... and still can’t ask my way.
Hopefully germans usually speak an excellent english.