A Simple Life, A Better Life?

Went to FC Massage yesterday to get my backbone ache sorted out. Of course, since it's a gay massage center, it came with other services which I think you can find out by googling around.

My story today ain't about me getting massage or anything like that, but rather on hearing the tale of my masseur yesterday.

Let's call him A. A is only 18yo (not my fault, I didn't look at their age/stats and such when picking him, it was through physical appeal), hailing all the way from a small town in Perak (Ipoh is not a small town, lol). An extremely friendly masseur by my standards, we got to know each other quite well within 15 minutes time through chatting while he worked on my back and legs (not physically, since I only start doing that at the end of session).

Cutting to the chase, he's doing the job because the money is good (obviously, one can get up to 400 bucks/day, beats my day job) and he aims to open his own salon (he got proper training for hairstylist skills) in his hometown with his mother. With little education backing him up on other proper jobs, he chose this line as he sees it as a quick path to his goal.

In terms of love life wise, he sees the world filled with hope that someday his prince charming would find him and they'll live happily ever after.

Now of course, me being me, I kinda doused all his hopes (gently) when I hear about his ideals of love in gay community but it did got me thinking, whether a simple life is a better life.

I once had the same ideals in the gay community but as I grew up, reality started sinking in, or rather, my other head starts influencing the main one. LOL.

As for career/life wise, A wanted badly to go back to his hometown to live with his mum happily ever after. Comparing this to myself, what I ever wanted my entire life was to get out of Ipoh to KL. Thus, A is very much different from me in this sense and I poked him further (non literal, please don't jerk while reading my blog) on why.

He shared that while city life is great and stuff, nothing beats spending time with people he loved the most in his life, which is at this point, his mum. In addition, changes are also pretty minimal in smaller towns and it's more manageable in most aspects of his life.

His points are valid, but I asked further what about the amount of cuties in cities, the luxury of dining, the entertainment opportunities and etc? He shared that these are good to have, but he was doing fine without them to begin with, which made very good sense to me.

So yea, my question of the day would be, what if I chose to live a simple life? Back in Ipoh, probably working for a small company on sales (since I'm quite adequate in my presentation/communication skills), staying with my parents, still half in closet (since I won't tell my parents I'm gay as I still live under their roof).

That would be a road not taken just like the poem we studied in Form 4, ain't it?

What about yourself? Do you think a simple life in a smaller town is better than a life in urban cities like KL/PJ?

Cheers
Robb