Here - I like his writing style. And thoughts. But it’s the style that makes it more interesting. He uses a lot of short sentences. I have noticed this in a somebody else’s writing style which I also liked. I think I have had begun to use short sentences too. I think I could duplicate it just by applying the short sentences thing. He is also jumping from one idea to another. Another thing I like.

I have found that blog post by listening to a song and searching in Google for one line of the lyrics. It’s weird, because the title also has the word “lucid dreams” in it. I wonder if I had found out about lucid dreams if I hadn’t watched a TV program about dreams and I hadn’t talked to one girl about them and if she hadn’t told me about lucid dreaming. I wonder.

As you think of it, my whole life could have changed because of that conversation. Not only that I found out about lucid dreaming. By searching for information about it, I found some material and people, which, in turn, perhaps lead me to other material and people which lead me to other people and other material and so on until the point in time where I am at the present moment.

I find that I very often get the feeling as if I was missing out on many things. Sure, I am missing out on mundane things that I could be doing too but I’m talking about missing out overall. People in the other part of the world are having fun and I could be there. People are studying at such or such place and I could be there. People travel and I could be there. Mostly, they are having a good time and I am not there and there are so many opportunities that I lose and that keep me from the ultimate experience. That’s what I call missing out in this sence. Anyway.

All of this is not what I wanted to write. It’s not! The part of the content of my post that corresponds to the topic has not even started yet. Here the most important part begins.

Some people want to get a house and live there and go on vacations a few times a year or whatever. I don’t think that would suit me. Why settle in one place? Days become all the same and the commonness just begins wearing one out.

Now, about living in places. Rent is not very expensive these times. You can get a really good new apartment for yourself for rent here for about $800 a month. In Japan it could cost as much as $1500 a month (yet, they have all kinds of gift money and deposit money so yo end up paying like 6 times that but still). And you would be living in Tokyo.

I’m not saying you should settle there. Imagine this. You could live 6 months in Tokyo (or just travel around during that time), go to China, Russia, France, Germany, USA, Australia, New Zealand (heard it is really cool there), finally, South Africa or many other countries. You just have to make more than $2,000 a month (at some places it’s way lower, though) for the rent and a bit more for other stuff. In any case, at the worst case scenario, I am pretty sure you wouldn’t need that much more, than, say, $4,000 a month to live off anywhere in the world (and I am not planning the worst case scenario).

Yet, getting yourself a house costs a lot more. Say, living here, if I was to pay the whole rent myself (and not just my cut), I could still live here for 50 years paying the rent until it would even out with the current price of the apartment (I think). Of course, I didn’t count inflation and also the fact that real estate prices go up makes it a better investment to get your own apartment and so on but that’s not the main thing.

What I’m saying is that, should you not have enough money to buy an apartment right away, why not rent it and change your living place often? That way you get to explore things…