Shake it off, baby
Jan. 29th, 2003 12:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talktoolooseOkay, I'm back, I've returned to my senses.
Some people spend their lives making more and more money because that is what they like to do. It is not what I like to do, therefore, I will not spend anymore time doing it than I need to in order to have the life I want. The things standing between me and my dreams are no longer lack of money, they are procrastination and fear.
I can procrastinate and be afraid just fine in my current house at my current level of income.
I am reminded of a scene at the end of Gregory Benford's Timescape whose narrative runs parallel in two different times. The future has alerted the past of coming ecological disaster and the past has taken steps to prevent it. But it is already reality in the future timeline and, at the end, a rich character holes himself up in a fortress with supplies and curvaceous females and hopes to ride out the apocolypse.
I'd rather spend my life in the book's past timeline trying to avert the apocolypse than struggle for the spurious security that money and property can bring.
Whew. I feel better.
Some people spend their lives making more and more money because that is what they like to do. It is not what I like to do, therefore, I will not spend anymore time doing it than I need to in order to have the life I want. The things standing between me and my dreams are no longer lack of money, they are procrastination and fear.
I can procrastinate and be afraid just fine in my current house at my current level of income.
I am reminded of a scene at the end of Gregory Benford's Timescape whose narrative runs parallel in two different times. The future has alerted the past of coming ecological disaster and the past has taken steps to prevent it. But it is already reality in the future timeline and, at the end, a rich character holes himself up in a fortress with supplies and curvaceous females and hopes to ride out the apocolypse.
I'd rather spend my life in the book's past timeline trying to avert the apocolypse than struggle for the spurious security that money and property can bring.
Whew. I feel better.
