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2. I like learning about other cultures, but I rarely travel to visit them.

There are two things that I would do if I were financially independent: Learn stuff, and travel.

Obviously, these things aren't mutually exclusive. What they are exclusive of, though, is working. I've tried taking classes while still working full-time, and it sucks. Even if the classes are only once a week, I find it hard to go, sometimes. It's just that work sucks up so much of my time and energy that all I want to do when I'm not at work is goof off.

Hell, all I want to do when I *am* at work is goof off.

Anyway, travel's out, too, except for like a week at a time, every few years.

Part of the problem is I'm just not a very ambitious person. Another part of the problem is even if I were ambitious, I wouldn't know what to do to get me to where I'd want to be if I were ambitious. If that makes any sense. I'd end up spinning my wheels. I know this because I used to be ambitious, but only one of my ambitions ever worked out, and now that it has, I want something else.

Fortunately, I like to be on the computer, and learning stuff that way. You can pick up a lot just casually surfing.

Still, that's not the same as actually visiting, say, Budapest.

"They" say that it helps to think of what you'd do if you knew for a fact you'd be dead in a month, and live accordingly. That strikes me as idiotic, because I wouldn't work or do anything productive. But I would go to Budapest, or England, or Japan, which I can't do now because we just can't afford it.

Someday...