it's addictive and hard to quit...

[samaka]

Just some thoughts from Egypt, where the spring is on the way.

I hate X-dive instructors! Somewhat in the same way a smoker hates X-smokers. A smoker has no problems with other smokers and even doesn't mind non smokers, but some one who've given the habit up and makes it out to be so easy that's annoying...

Former dive instructors who've been going back and now live what they call a normal life really puts me off in a bad way! I have such a difficult time just to go back visiting my old country/life style and these people have actually returned to the very thing that I once escaped, what I thank God I got away from. Not only did they do that, they all just tell you how easy it was to go back.

The key words here are go back? Why is it that so many want to return, or settle down? Isn't life all about moving on? To explore? To grow? To learn? To evolve? Isn't going back in this matter the same thing as a step back in evolution? And then one question springs to mind: Why would any one want to get one step closer to being a single cell organism?

.....a.....

 

[The Chairman]

You forgot the [/rant] argument!

Most former instructors I have known grew tired of not eating. In order to feed their filthy eating habit and living somewhere above the poverty line, they found it necessary to go back to sanity. Sort of like the Darlings having to return from Never Never Land. Reality sucks, but it sure pays the bills.

 

[Garrobo]

What's the question?

 

[Rick Inman]

Hate is such a strong word.

[pop-psycho]Sometimes when a person fails at something and they quit, they feel the need to justify their decision to themselves and everyone else. If they had to get a "real job" to survive, it helps them accept it and not be depressed all the time by rationalizing away their decision. [/pop-psycho]

Help them feel better. Tell them how much diving for a living sucks.

 

[J.R.]

Ah... but is it *perception*... *reality* or *transferance*.... hummmm....

... more pop-psycho... SOMETIMES people who are unsatisfied with their lives (people who *can't quit smoking*... *instructors who find the dream less than brilliant* transfer their own dissatisfaction with themsleves onto those who they see as being happier having gone to a place where they themselves are unable or unwilling to get to... [The "misery loves company' and 'birds of a feather get plucked together' syndromes...]

... make yourself feel better... go dive and quit whining, pop a cold one... kick back and decide what you REALLY want and then go after it... ya' make your choices... ya' live with those choices... [... kinda' like "Plan your dive... dive your plan... and don't gripe because SOMEBODY else saw a seahorse and all you got to see were a few hawkbills..."]

 

[ScubaSteve]

Help them feel better.......

Help them feel better by asking to borrow $50....that will make them feel better about their decision and you'll score $50.

 

[diver 85]

All the questions you asked in your last paragraph will be answered on your death day...