06-28-2008, 04:00 PM
>>>Everyone gets their own experience. For some it will be better than others. My advice is to not wait for people to approach you. Approach them. Be open. Be honest. Be respectful. Be here (not from where you came from)
Good advice. Like I said, I've never gotten a bad vibe myself, and I don't predict that most people will. But it would simply be unrealistic not to understand that SOME people out there resent you. You may not ever feel it. You may not ever hear about it. But when they are at home, they talk stink about haoles. And their kids pick it up and internalize it. School is a place where kids can be really mean.
Maggie said she could not afford private school, and the charter schools didn't impress her, so I was concerned. But it sounds like she's on to a promising charter school.
She also did not seem to know much of anything about subdivisions where she planned to build. I have a concern for anyone who comes here without doing the homework.
I would say, best chances of a happy life here go to people who do their homework.
Maybe it's just me, but I think homework includes learning about the whole picture.
I guess I'm unusual here, but I don't care much about "it never happened to me" stories. If it happens to anybody, I feel connected. I'm part of everyone's experience. By all accounts, Dana Ireland was a wonderful, sweet caring person, who just happened to be a little too unconcerned about riding her bike alone ... not thinking about the bad in people. And she paid the price with her life. Did she fail to extend aloha? What did she do wrong? Did she bring it on herself?
If you get back what you give, and your life will be good if you give out good energy, how does one make sense of what happened to her in paradise?
Good advice. Like I said, I've never gotten a bad vibe myself, and I don't predict that most people will. But it would simply be unrealistic not to understand that SOME people out there resent you. You may not ever feel it. You may not ever hear about it. But when they are at home, they talk stink about haoles. And their kids pick it up and internalize it. School is a place where kids can be really mean.
Maggie said she could not afford private school, and the charter schools didn't impress her, so I was concerned. But it sounds like she's on to a promising charter school.
She also did not seem to know much of anything about subdivisions where she planned to build. I have a concern for anyone who comes here without doing the homework.
I would say, best chances of a happy life here go to people who do their homework.
Maybe it's just me, but I think homework includes learning about the whole picture.
I guess I'm unusual here, but I don't care much about "it never happened to me" stories. If it happens to anybody, I feel connected. I'm part of everyone's experience. By all accounts, Dana Ireland was a wonderful, sweet caring person, who just happened to be a little too unconcerned about riding her bike alone ... not thinking about the bad in people. And she paid the price with her life. Did she fail to extend aloha? What did she do wrong? Did she bring it on herself?
If you get back what you give, and your life will be good if you give out good energy, how does one make sense of what happened to her in paradise?