RE: What to do?
Been there, done that. I went through the same thing with toys/hobbies. I shot a lot of IPSC. One Sunday afternoon, I had a 2 hour drive to a match and a plenty of time to think. I was bummed because my wife didn't to go. Even when she did go, it was "sit in the sun for an hour, what me shoot for 30 seconds, so on, so on....." I almost turned around and went home, I felt so guilty. I continued to the match, shot the match of my life, and on the way home said "thats it". Without her knowing, I unloaded everything I had. After I got all my money, I handed her an envelope full of money and said "take what you want, give me the rest". She had no idea I had dropped competetive shooting. She cried a bit, but I knew that it was time to move on to family life. The following Christmas she gave me a beautiful model 94, and well....October came our first child. A few years later, I unloaded almost all the hunting,fishing, and golf crap I had. I kept only the sentimental guns, couple of choice fishing rods(had about 30 at the time) one bag of tackle, and 1 set of golf clubs. I went backwards, so to speak. I hunteverything on4 legs with a 270(and occasional 30-30), anything that flys with my o/u, anything that swims with a 6 1/2 med/light spinning outfit. Archery is 1 recurve bow. Thats it. And here is the deal,I actually enjoy my opportunites to hunt,fish,golf....100 times more than I ever did.
Why?, and I think that this may be what happend to your buddy....after awhile, your possessions, possess you. Everytime he walks past that boat, he is pissed because he's not using it, and doesn't care to, because itsbecome a burden. Once you have a garage full of that crap it all starts to look that way. I think you canget so wrapped up in the gear that it gets so expensive that you begin to hate every dollar you spend on it. Now, if I dont hunt,I dontfeel like I've spent all this money for nothing. And to top it off, spendingtime with your kids is morerewarding anyway.Do I hope that my daughter will hunt one day? Sure! She likes to watch me shoot my bow in our basement. I even bought hera little one. I never ask her to shoot it, just let her do her thing. But, I'll tell you this...When you're eating dinner and those little blue eyes look across the table and say "Daddy, after dinner, lets go to the basement and shoot our bows" Then you'llknow....
Sappy, yes. My brother went through the same thing. Cleaned house, and never lookedback. Has more fun now than ever.
Oh yeah, movie was "TopGun"........how about this one, "you can get busy living, or get busy dying"
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