wave slavery

Surfing exacts a high price, you can't have it all. If you want to chase swells when and where they happen, you have to liberate other parts of your life and this means passing up opportunities, and sacrificing relationships. However, surfing can also create opportunities. If you have ever sat in a cubicle watching the surf going off on the cam at your beach, then you know the true definition of torture. This is what motivated me to start my own business that allowed me the flexibility to surf when I wanted. Now *I'm* the guy in the cam surfing the wave you're watching. Thank you surfing!

 

I just watched you pearl on a knee high foam ball. Thanks beach cam!

 

Beats sitting in a cubicle.

 

Seems like everything's negotiable except your kids. The kids have got to come first before your own needs. Even Barry knows that!

 

I agree but the answer to that problem is simple....don't have them. My wife and I never did and I seem to have a lot of free time to surf or travel, fish, etc....

 

Do you ever regret it? My wife have been trying but time is running out before we decide to pull the plug on the idea. We'll both be a little sad if that happens, but we've both agreed that it's not the end of the world for us either and would possibly adopt, or just get more dogs.

 

What?? AM I to be villified by a backhand slap here??
Betty, hath thou forsaken me??

 

As others have said, do what you want while you can't... If you're young and only really need to worry about yourself then doing what you want to do is always the right move... I've made countless reckless decisions that I should probably regret, but I don't.

Once you have a family and are responsible for them and not just youself things will change. I've turned down more trips and big nights out the last couple of years than I'd like to think about. And now that I have a 2nd kid it's taken far more time away than before.
But I don't feel like I miss out at all (except when my friends went to Fiji. That hurt a bit)...

 

My wife and I have but one regret--that we didn't have more kids.
Other than that, all are happy and well in the Cuda Corner, for now. Hope it stays that way.

 

Feels like life gets in the way of surfing...not the other way around. All my compromises are more like- Will miss that swell because I have to go to someones wedding/ or- Can't make that trip because of work/ or- Family trip has to NOT include surf ( why the hell not? what...i'm being selfish?).
I am past 40 and I still fall asleep fantasizing about just leaving and taking a year to surf around the world.

 

how many you spawn barry?
did you at least keep yourself at an evolutionary fitness of 1.0?

 

Take good care of yourself, and it all comes full circle. I'm on the backside of kids and commitments. Kids are largely on their own now, and I'm surfing and traveling more than ever again, thing of beauty.

 

Yup, just one. That I know of.......

 

so no, you have a fitness of 0.5

smart people really should breed more, instead we have ghetto simpletons pumping out moron after moron

Barry, go find a smart comely lass and do your duty to the future. repeatedly. do it for humanity

 

If you can put the child's needs above yours, you will never regret having a child. You will give up your heavy drinking and your drugging,( and surf but not when it supplants your family's needs, ), and be the richer for it.

There is no trip as wonderful as raising a child. There is no love that compares. You will be vulnerable until the day you die and still be richer for it.

It can take a year to conceive the first time. (For some people, smoking and drinking can impede that, ironically.)

 

It's too late for Barry, but don't worry thanky I picked up the slack. My spawn will require massive welfare and government support. I'll send them to your town in Hawaii.

 

Worde.

 

DSUP, you tellin us your pee pee doesnt work?

You need NYNJ to pinch hit?

 

Nah dawg, we tested my swimmers and they are plentiful.

 

could always use more long pork stock