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A lesson many learn too late. From a very entertaining read:Any time you look into whether or not you should try doing something, especially something bold or daring, there is going to be someone who says you can't.
They are the "naysayers," and they are abundant. If we had listened to them, we would have missed out on the greatest experience of our lives. The naysayer comes in one of three types:
First, there are those who want to do what your attempting --- have considered it, dreamed of it, even casually thrown it out as a potential "someday" or retirement plan. But they never will. Deep in their hearts they know it, and they use "can't" as an excuse for themselves and a deterrent to others, all efforts pointing toward the grand goal of making themselves feel better. Not that there's anything wrong with preferring security, confirm, known entities, and a general lack of danger in your life; there isn't, but it us wrong to pretend to be a free-spirited adventurer and then disdain those who are.
Other naysayers have done what you're attempting, but, in doing so, expended far more resources and feel superior for it. No one who's justified (to themselves, their family, their friends) spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on living a dream wants to know that someone else could achieve a similar goal spending, say, ten thousand. Nor does someone who waited his or her whole life to embark on an adventure want to admit that two twenty somethings with nominal experience can just quit their decent jobs, go gallivanting around on an old boat full of cheap wine and ramen, and the regain decent jobs afterward. It just ain't that easy, dammit!
Finally there are the naysayers who truly believe certain goals can't be achieved, that they're simply too unsafe or even impossible. Their concern is perhaps more philanthropic --- they just don't want to see a couple of quixotic young lovers die at sea.
Whatever their reasons, these people are all saying, "can't," "don't," "stop," "no."
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