I'm sure some of you have had a good innings here in The Realm.

So what have you actually achieved?

Are we obliged to achieve anything ? the whole purpose of coming to Thailand is for a rest from many years,if not a lifetime of work!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mxXEIcQCc

insight

insight

By coming across by many of your posts lately, i concluded we have not much in common. You even annoyed me by many of your comments. This 1 though ....well......... i second it wholehartedly.

So, insight it is for me too.

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A legacy.

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insight

By coming across by many of your posts lately, i concluded we have not much in common. You even annoyed me by many of your comments. This 1 though ....well......... i second it wholehartedly.

So, insight it is for me too.

can't say I have any thoughts about your comments one way or the other.

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A legacy.

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Odd link to promote.

The first page alone shows three banned members and some barely-sane weirdo who's recently changed his avatar in "rememberance" of a 360 pound sex tourist who's just been given the boot.

When I made my life plan I wrote that having a good BM and walking to the mail box would be an achievement of course that is when I am 95 yrs old. the point being, achievement is very much the same as beauty; it is in the eye of the beholder.

once i had an ingrown toenail, but it was cured.

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A legacy.

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Odd link to promote.

The first page alone shows three banned members and some barely-sane weirdo who's recently changed his avatar in "rememberance" of a 360 pound sex tourist who's just been given the boot.

I think it's quite an even link actually.

Like any OP, you can't control the members who post there ... tis not I who ban members.

Is it a crime to change one's Avatar ... I've changed mine ... you yours.

One of the Joys, for me of Thailand, is the relative freedom of choice.

My choices, your choices ... and the other members choices.

I reckon most of the Members on Thai Visa are good blokes ... just some you have to dig a little deeper with some then others.

How you view other members probably says more about you then them ...

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I influenced people. Just a tiny bit, but a bit is all it takes sometimes.

I influenced people. Just a tiny bit, but a bit is all it takes sometimes.

By ?

I influenced people. Just a tiny bit, but a bit is all it takes sometimes.

By ?

Well I don't have time to right it all down. I changed some agronomic things that meant a group of farmers increased their earnings by 20%?

That was 16 years ago. I paid 4 years ago for my nephew t to stay in the UK for 6 months and he decided to continue with his legal studies to improve the Thai legal system?

The list is very long of small ways in which I have touched peoples lives in Thailand. Got the gardener treatment for peptic ulcers? Nursed my father in law for 9 months with Alzheimer's when everyone else gave up?

Giving because you can is the best medicine. Too many things to mention. Coached a bunch of kids in cricket some of whom are now in the Thai national team, providing them with kit I bought from India. That was very rewarding.

Achieved? Well,, firstly I escaped a country that is generally cold and depressing, taxes at every opportunity, and you need permission to do just about anything and is expensive to exist, yes exist not live.

I bought an area of land that I could otherwise never have been able to do.

I designed and built my own home the way I wanted, where I wanted.

I have a beautiful wife and loving family whose lives have also been enhanced by my presence and they in return have enriched mine in countless ways.I am soon to be a grandfather and that childs future will also be enhanced.

The main thing achieved would be a less sressful life, peaceful surroundings and a happy family all on my terms, a LIFE that I wanted and I created.

“When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do.

I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore.”

Seems to me that the egocentric view of, dwelling on what we achieved, is a road block on the actions of what we should achieve and do now.....ie stop thinking about what you did (and patting yourself on the back) get out there and DO something NOW....change the world ....make it a better place to live for the future generations.

Peace, and the ability to enjoy it!

“When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do.

I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore.”

thanks joy

“When I was little and running on the race track at school ...

thanks joy

Agreed ... would have been nice if the quote was acknowledged ...

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“When I was little and running on the race track at school ...

thanks joy

Agreed ... would have been nice if the quote was acknowledged ...

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Sorry about that.... quote was by ....C.Joybell C.

So what have you actually achieved?

More hangovers than I ever did back home.

Sometimes it is about what you haven't done.

I will have left behind no children, debts, discarded cigaret buts or beer cans, and hopefully no regrets. I have been happy to leave others to their own devices as they blaze their own path. I have not shoved strong convictions in the faces of others about what they should do or how they should do it.

I hope that I didn’t get in anyones way while I was enjoying my brief stay on this planet. I will leave nothing but footprints and take away nothing but memories.

I found a life style of peace, living in Harmony with my peers in the village, also the people of Thailand restored my faith in Humanity.

Such a life dictated by my family and my own needs no one else, not having to get a permit or permission to do anything to our home, become more self sufficient. To live in harmony with my wife, my family , the land and populaces of my adopted country!.

To finally find the peace I have searched for all of my life.

Cheers:

Ask me again in 6 to 12 months and I'll let you know what I've achieved in Thailand.

In the meantime here's a picture(s) of my youngest nephew and a clue - The Kings Speech.

What have i achieved ? my life long ambition to never ever have to wake up in the morning and think , oh shit i have to work today.

Are we obliged to achieve anything ? the whole purpose of coming to Thailand is for a rest from many years,if not a lifetime of work!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mxXEIcQCc

Really? Thailand began my period of productivity. Published four books and became a keynote speaker for international leadership seminars.

Sent from my tin can via string.

Drunk a lot of beer, annoyed a lot of women.

I'm sure some of you have had a good innings here in The Realm.

So what have you actually achieved?

Deep sleep, at 3:01 in the morning, when you were posting this.

Tell us Darren, since it's your op, what have you achieved?

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A legacy.

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a leg over.

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A legacy.

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Odd link to promote.

The first page alone shows three banned members and some barely-sane weirdo who's recently changed his avatar in "rememberance" of a 360 pound sex tourist who's just been given the boot.

welcome to the community