It is January 17th and there has been no response to my application. The last day in my current position is the 28th.
Nothing but facts. from antiwork
We are all disposable. Prioritize yourself.
Being jobless in Costa Rica for a month was the plan. I would spend the time writing and sharing space with my new partner, (a word I shall use until I invent one I like). We’ve seen each other twice in person—the night we met at a club, and then the next day, in a park.
What was to follow the month of seeing if our daily texting back and forth (for three months now) was based on a real desire to compromise for the sake of staying together, was an internship on a farm in the mountains of Nicaragua, learning the basics of permaculture. After telling my mother this, she stopped responding to my WhatsApp messages. I suspect she got distracted by a pot that was boiling over or by my autistic twin sister or something, though.
Breaking the Chains
Habits are the chains that bind, and becoming free takes a determined effort not only to break, but to replace them with those that contain rather than restrict…perhaps by attributing a different meaning to things, looking for the truth where it was taken for granted, and having a positive outlook in the face of inevitable frustrations. This has nothing to do with New Year’s resolutions.
Becoming vegan, in April last year, has created in me a heightened awakening effect, catalysed by an already stewing dissatisfaction, as easy to escape as the air in which many of us drown. Presently, no more magnified is my rage than by the modern day slavery into which we’re born, known popularly as the ‘9 to 5’.
Leading me through a land populated by the masculine, in suits and ties, and feminine, following suit, but in high heels, I am to be found, hopefully, on the trail of a rare freedom from feeling obliged to sell most of my time, in return for printed paper and coins. It is a trail leading, instead, to the ‘Forever Now’, a place which is no place for worries about meeting future financial obligations nor about failings resonating from the past….
Failing that, the path leads to the place where I lose my mind in traditionally obvious ways. This is that journey.
Thanks for joining me!
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
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