Within the Buddhist pantheon the idea that delusion causes suffering is well
established. I put the old man into a rest home because he was suffering from the
delusion that he could manage the mundane things of life such as cooking, shopping,
cleaning, and driving - but actually he couldn't. His dementia caused him to forget
even the most simplest of things like you got to add hot water to a cup with a tea
bag in it to actually make a drinkable cup of tea. The old bugger was getting totally
stressed out trying to figure it all out.
Well, I got to thinking that in the rest home he was now experiencing a stress free
life - no cooking, no cleaning, entertainment laid on, and getting his laundry done
too. He is now transformed from the man he was to a man who is now much more
relaxed and doesn't get aggressive and agitated like he used to. Of course this is
costing us the family over 25k Baht per week but for much much less I can have the
same stress free life in Thailand. This is why the ex pat Thai whingers set are quite happy
to pour a ton of shit on the host country but will not remove their sorry selves from
the source of their complaint . They are living in the big rest home of Thailand and
would actually be broke in their home country if they paid for the
same services they get for peanuts in Thailand. So they stay put. Roll on my
retirement age, though I refuse to join the pitiful, joyless and sad ranks of the ex pat Thai
whinger.