I woke up at 4 am today. Didn’t intend to. But that’s what happens when your work is so important that you stress out over your ability to make ends meet and keep a roof over your family’s head. And you lay in bed staring at the dark ceiling wondering whether it’s all just a great lie. A dangling carrot on a movie screen as you run along a treadmill; clean-shaven and committed to making a dollar.
The rich must take special classes to learn how not to laugh at us as we make our way through a world where every day we sell our most valuable resource for the advancement of commercialism. Collecting scraps off the shop floor to take home and feed our children. Explaining to them that if they’re lucky, one day they too can sell their time in the struggle to survive for ninety years.
The world really is a vampire – sucking the creativity out of you until you’re dried up and turned to ash.
Rebel. Disrupt. Create until the world can no longer ignore you. Feed that to your children.
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Dion V
Sep 11, 2012
I struggle with this thought more and more as my daughter approaches high school and will be told “You have to decide what you want to be for the rest of your life.”
We keep trying to encourage her to be open to new opportunities and explore as much as she can. We’ll see how it goes.
UpsideUp Laurie
Sep 11, 2012
Amen.
MarlboroDad
Sep 11, 2012
I always imagine the folks who have owned the compaies I have worked for marvelling at just how little compensation “regular folk” accept to work our lives away helping to line their pockets and support their lives of relative leisure. Good times.
Cheryl Smithem
Sep 12, 2012
Jim, after awaking 3 nights in a row with similar feelings and worries, I can entirely empathize with you.
And one of my first thoughts this morning was, “Who won Mega Millions”?