Doing the right thing totally depends on who you are and who you are most influenced by. I think the "right thing" is the thing that feels the most right for me. The thing I want to do at my innermost core. Sometimes this thing doesn't match up with an instinctual constant.. like survival. Often times it's complacency vs. uncertainty. For the most part human beings are taught to manage risk by going for things that are guaranteed.
This training prevents us from considering things like quitting a job without another job lined up. Regardless of your feelings. Especially if you have children. You will ultimately have an instinctual desire to protect them at any cost.. even if that cost is your own happiness. It seems like corporate America counts on our instinctual desire to keep our hearts beating.. they count on it so much. They feel like they can squeeze us and squeeze us and squeeze us.. knowing we won't snap and leave because their paycheck is our next meal. and our next meal sustains our life.. for them. it really is a vicious circle.
a friend of mine ended the circle today.. and did the right thing. it was liberating.. and I wish him the best. and to the man who drove him to it.. and the one before him who helped architect the system of exploitation i say "fuck you". and then I ask you to start being fair. let us love what we do. don't take that away from us by appealing to our survival instincts to leverage productivity.
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You should really comment about this article because it is important to me.
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[+] Comment (emo) by Trey @ 12/21/05 03:17:14 PM {0}
I think about things like this quite a bit. Where I would be, and what I would do if I stopped loving what I do. I've been doing this all my life, and it is in my bloodline to do what I do. It's kind of weird. There were studies taken that if you save like x% of your paycheck for x amount of years, then you could take a full year off living at the same status you are currently accustomed to. In this time you have to find things to do to occupy your free time as to not go insane, and supposedly within three months you do what you are "meant" to do as you are naturally gravitated towards that anyway. I have never taken a full year off, but all of my life with any free time I have I start to do, what I do for a living. Maybe I am blessed that I found this at an early age, maybe I am cursed, I don't really know. I do know it takes very little to make me happy, and I have everything I need for that at my current state; however I wish your friend the best of luck, and hope he feels a huge burden has been lifted from his shoulders. Damn, if my lawn was as emo as that comment it would be great because it would cut itself.
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