Taking A Break... Again

Discussion in 'Not Sure Where it Goes' started by Cody Fousnaugh, Sep 19, 2018.

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  1. Holly Saunders

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    Well I'm sorry to be blunt but you are self centred Cody...

    Other people live different lives,, varied and interesting lives, but you seem to want us all to be interested in your life and interests but ignore all of ours...that's not how it works, not if you want to have friends..it's a 2 way street. You need to show interest in others if you want them to be interested in you !!
     
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    I have no interest in moving to a large city but if money weren't an object, I wouldn't mind living in a very large city for a year, just to see what it's like to live in a city like New York or Boston. Southern California is a little like a large city, with no rural areas between incorporated cities, but it was all spread out rather than bunched up, like NYC, Boston, Kansas City, and the like. I'd also like to live on an island for a year, but that's because I enjoy experiencing new things and, while touring can be fun, you don't really get a feel for a place unless you live there.
     
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  3. Cody Fousnaugh

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    So, does that mean that ranchers, farmers and rodeo people are all self-centered? When we watched the Netflix Series, The Ranch and seen how hilarious Beau (Sam Elliott) was toward most everything that wasn't cowboy or ranch related. From his son's hair supplies, to Almond Milk his son drank, to putting A-1 Steak Sauce on a steak he had BBQ'd, to cell phones, to wine, etc., etc. Heck, even the Sheriff in the Netflix Series Longmire, didn't like cell phones and some other modern day things. Anyone who watched these two series, could see this. So, it's not just me that doesn't want to learn new things. Like I said, none of the rodeo guys I knew ever wanted to talk about anything that they didn't already like and know about. They weren't open to discuss anything, but what they like to do.

    Most likely you wouldn't get along with any of the rodeo people I knew. My wife learned (note, the word "learned") about what they liked to do and didn't talk about anything else. She fit in perfectly. And, when talking with them, she was always wearing Western clothes and her hat...….not shorts or tennis shoes.
     
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    Of course, you realize that Sam Elliott is an actor playing a role. While he has played in a whole lot of Westerns and probably does feel comfortable in that role, he has also had a lot of other roles, some in which I barely recognized him.
     
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    See you're just proving you can't separate fact from fiction....
     
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  6. Cody Fousnaugh

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    Yes, but isn't it funny, even as actors, both Sam Elliott (The Ranch) and Robert Taylor (Sheriff Longmire) had the same feelings about certain things that weren't "cowboy" or "ranch" related to them. The movie, The Cowboy Way, is the same. Both Woody Haroldson and Kiefer Sutherland, when they went to New York City, complained about the noise and other things. Take someone from New York City and put them into a small town in the middle of Montana and see what happens...….one word, shock! Take someone from a small town in Wyoming and put them into New York City and see what happens...…...again, shock!

    Another thing, from what I've read, farm and ranch families don't go to Disney World or Disneyland.

    I know these guys are actors, but it is so odd that their part of the script calls for them not to like big cities or big city things. There are real people, not actors, that feel the exact same way.
     
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    Just like I just told Ken, get around cowboys, rodeo people, farm and ranch families and you will see and hear that it's not necessarily fiction. These folks are sitting around drinking wine and hosing a dinner party. They aren't going to any professional sports games, except rodeo. There is a lot of truth to what I'm saying. Nothing wrong with "big city" folks, but they are definitely different than rodeo, ranch and farm folks. I mean, I did grow up on a hog farm and I was involved in rodeo. I've been to places in Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana, Oklahoma and know how they live, talk and dress. Baseball caps or cowboy hats are the headgear of each day. Nobody in shorts bailing hay or stack hay, plowing, disking or planting a field. Nobody in shorts showing livestock at a county fair who is in 4-H or FFA.

    Sorry, Holly, but I do know what I'm talking about. Anyway, what other member would have an Avatar of a full-rack Bull Elk or a Buffalo on this forum. Most likely, only me.
     
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    So, are you taking that break or not, Cody?
     
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    Yes, but trying so dang hard to explain the difference in country, farm, ranch and rodeo folks from others. And, basically those lifestyles don't want to hear about other lifestyles. People in Montana could care less what goes on in Los Angeles or New York City and visa-versa. And, if a person has a California plate on their vehicle, good change a Montana person will leave a note on the windshield saying to either get a Montana plate or go back to California. That's exactly what happened to me!

    It's just beyond me why people in this forum have a hard time understanding that there are those that don't want to know about lifestyles of people that don't have the same type of lifestyle.

    My wife totally understands what I'm talking about, but, then again, she had to learn some things in order to fit in with the people I knew. She had no problems doing that.
     
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    That sounds sad and lonely to me.
     
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    Sorry, Ken, but there are those kinds of people. There are people here in Jacksonville and Florida itself, that would care less about Moose in Maine or anything else in Maine. As for me, I love hearing about Maine and the town you live in, but that's me. Just like I've read comments like, "There aren't any real cowboys in Texas" from website that talks about where cowboys are in the U.S.. That comment came from a guy that is a cowboy in Montana...…...actually a ranch foreman.

    So, no matter how sad and lonely it sounds, there are folks out there that think that way.
     
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    I believe that cowboys began in Texas, evolving from the vaqueros. I know at least one person in Texas, a friend of mine, who certainly lives and looks the part. Although he has a ranch, with horses, steers, cows, pigs, dogs, and chickens, his interests are not so restricted. We met working on the same web directory.
     
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    “It's just beyond me why people in this forum have a hard time understanding that there are those that don't want to know about lifestyles of people that don't have the same type of lifestyle.”

    I guess that since you are not interested in anyone else’s life, and only want to talk with people that love Wyoming, snow, rodeos, and boating, (and hate.....totally HATE , Florida) , there is just not much left for you (or most of us) to have any kind of a conversation about, and you have just spent 3 pages of this thread to repeat that over and over, @Cody Fousnaugh .

    So..... I think we all get your message that no one here can understand you or speak your language, and we totally “get” your disinterest for what happens in our lives.
     
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    Cody,

    I'm open to hearing about people with different lifestyles and I'm tolerant/accepting of those different lifestyles.

    IMO that is what is missing in your posts, you don't appear to accept differences in how others live.

    I know that you think my approach is weak minded but you don't have to like things you only have to accept them.

    I read in a Readers Digest years ago: "You can never change the facts but you can always change your attitude."
     
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    I think Cody is a person who needs a lot of attention. He has said that both he and his wife are needy. If he posts a thread about leaving here, he gets lots of attention, as witness the replies and views this thread has had. I think that this likely has roots in his desolate childhood. He apparently grew up lacking attention or at least, the kind of attention a child needs. I don't think it is an ego trip for him but a cry from a lonely child.

    I think that the reason he mentions his wife so often is that he is so happy and proud to have someone in his life who loves him and needs him. He apparently spent many years alone and lonely.

    While I'm at it, I think that deep down, he knows that the possibility of him living his dream to move west is remote at his and his wife's age. But a person must have a dream sometimes to survive.

    So here's a hug for you, Cody. hug.gif

    The grand essentials to happiness in this life are:

    Something to love
    Something to do
    And something to hope for.


    Joseph Addison
     
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