(3) Just like you, I'm a lonely guy too. Ever since I was a teenager, my only true friends have been the dead authors of great books from throughout the world. Those people, although many of them may have been misfits or on the crazy side, must have striven all their lives to ...
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(4) overcome their weakness, pettiness, ignorance. I'm not the kind of guy that asserts that knowledge is everything. There are certainly those who are very good at associating with people or adept at making things with their hands or at sports even if not intellectual.
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(5) But I hate those who are pig-headed enough to despise those who happen to be bad at the skills they have. I like those who know their limits and always strive to be better than what they were yesterday, instead of working to be better than other people.
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Appalachia is beautiful. And cost of living is easier. I lived in cities most of my life. The ignorance there is as great as anywhere, if not moreso. Intellectuals are not necessarily wise. They are mostly just better schemers.
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The hill folk generally leave you alone. In the city, people are always imposing themselves on you in one way or another. After living in a rural district, I never want to have to live in a city again. I can walk out my backdoor here and I am in a forest.
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(1) I'm glad you've found a great place to live in. In Japan, however, country folk don't leave you alone. City people, on the other hand, leave you alone. At least that's what we always hear. I've never lived in the country before.
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(2) Besides, I don't think I can get along well in a rural area where you have to do everything all by yourself and where medical care and book delivery service and other transportation are hard to come by.
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(3) So I put up with this noisy city life. Besides, even though I don't like my parents, I don't think I can ever leave them. As their eldest son and child, I have to be close to them. If I leave them, then my siblings will have a hard time instead of me.
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(4) I'm not the kind of guy that can impose the burden on someone else. If someone has to suffer, then I'll take the responsibility. I'm that kind of guy, whether fortunate or unfortunate. Besides, I pity my parents. They had had very hard lives as children and in later years.
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(5) By the way, I know what you mean when you say that intellectuals are not always wise. Although I can't become wiser by reading books and thinking hard, I still crave knowledge and art. So I'll keep on pursuing liberal arts as long as I live.
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I wasn't advising you to move out into the country. I was just giving you my take on it. As far as being intellectual, it's not a bad thing, in itself. But it doesn't necessarily mean intellectuals are wiser. Look at all the intellectual breeders. Haha
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Oh, I hadn't thought you were advising me to move out into the country. Just like you, I was just telling you how I am content to live in a big city.
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I've done both. They both have their pros & cons. Out here in the sticks, I can go for days & not have to interact with another person. It's a beautiful thing. Haha
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