Let's be honest, it's very easy to loose motivation when unemployed...
I myself recently resigned from a ok paying job...but actually due to my tax status under the job...all I was doing was racking up a large tax bill for myself...so now I'm actually glad I quite that job...
Anyways...all that aside...there's something seductive about being at home..
The nuetrality of the house, or your home, is very comforting...in other words when at home, you don't have to be anyone...don't have to impress anyone, don't have to compete with anyone...your just there, alone, by yourself, to do and feel whatever...(if your single)(but same principle applies even if you have a family...just in a slightly different way)
I think once you get over a certain age or career threshold, life at home, just being left alone, becomes your #1 choice of things to do...
When I was younger...I hated being at home...to be at home on a weekend night was a sign of a failed social life...or even on weekday nights...being at home was a sign of not having a life...
But now I cherish my home time....
And once here...am not really in a rush to jump back out there into the fray...
But must soon...cause I support myself...and never ever recieve unemployment...but if I did...I can see how easy it would be to sit around for 2 years doing absolutly nothing...I can see how tempting that would be...
Once you figure out human nature...you realize unless your of a certain stock, you can never impress man or the masses...
And even if you are of that right stock...the window of opportunity is short....
So after a while your like 'Ok, who am I trying to fool, they don't like me, I don't like them, but I need a job'...
So you go through the motions....everyone does...
Sometimes I wish I could spend the latter years of my life in a country or system where other things were emphasized other than pay checks and bills....
I think that burden really robs a lot of people out of what life was really meant to be...
I wish I could experience life on earth before the monetary system took over...
Where once you built your cabin...it was yours...no rent, no morgage, no this no that...and you worked to sustain yourself and family, not a whole nation and government...
Where work meant going out and gathering food from the garden for dinner...not punching a time clock at a warehouse....
Capitolism has really altered the meaning of life...big time...and has really seperated man from what I really think we were put here for...
Capitolism has really changed the focus of our existance...
It works for a few, but the rest of us just seem to be servants to it...
My problem is I don't crave money anymore...I only crave it in the sense that I know I need it, in order to seperate myself from this system...that's the irony...
You need lot's of money, in order to free yourself from money...
The young, the sexy, and the lovers of money can have theirs...cause I really don't want it anymore...
I just wish there was a place the rest of of could go where we could live out our lives on other principles...
Unless I die early, I have many more years I have to participate in this rat race...and I'm not really looking forward to it...
Oh well...
Anyways...sorry, I really kinda drifted while writing this...
Home Sweet Home...
With a home like this, why would you ever want to leave...
Anyways...all that aside...there's something seductive about being at home..
The nuetrality of the house, or your home, is very comforting...in other words when at home, you don't have to be anyone...don't have to impress anyone, don't have to compete with anyone...your just there, alone, by yourself, to do and feel whatever...(if your single)(but same principle applies even if you have a family...just in a slightly different way)
I think once you get over a certain age or career threshold, life at home, just being left alone, becomes your #1 choice of things to do...
When I was younger...I hated being at home...to be at home on a weekend night was a sign of a failed social life...or even on weekday nights...being at home was a sign of not having a life...
But now I cherish my home time....
And once here...am not really in a rush to jump back out there into the fray...
But must soon...cause I support myself...and never ever recieve unemployment...but if I did...I can see how easy it would be to sit around for 2 years doing absolutly nothing...I can see how tempting that would be...
Once you figure out human nature...you realize unless your of a certain stock, you can never impress man or the masses...
And even if you are of that right stock...the window of opportunity is short....
So after a while your like 'Ok, who am I trying to fool, they don't like me, I don't like them, but I need a job'...
So you go through the motions....everyone does...
Sometimes I wish I could spend the latter years of my life in a country or system where other things were emphasized other than pay checks and bills....
I think that burden really robs a lot of people out of what life was really meant to be...
I wish I could experience life on earth before the monetary system took over...
Where once you built your cabin...it was yours...no rent, no morgage, no this no that...and you worked to sustain yourself and family, not a whole nation and government...
Where work meant going out and gathering food from the garden for dinner...not punching a time clock at a warehouse....
Capitolism has really altered the meaning of life...big time...and has really seperated man from what I really think we were put here for...
Capitolism has really changed the focus of our existance...
It works for a few, but the rest of us just seem to be servants to it...
My problem is I don't crave money anymore...I only crave it in the sense that I know I need it, in order to seperate myself from this system...that's the irony...
You need lot's of money, in order to free yourself from money...
The young, the sexy, and the lovers of money can have theirs...cause I really don't want it anymore...
I just wish there was a place the rest of of could go where we could live out our lives on other principles...
Unless I die early, I have many more years I have to participate in this rat race...and I'm not really looking forward to it...
Oh well...
Anyways...sorry, I really kinda drifted while writing this...
Home Sweet Home...
With a home like this, why would you ever want to leave...
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If you want that type of lifestyle where you feel the need to 'scrape' off the land, then go to Aftsganistan or one of those Countries that are impoverished and so lacking of the 'essentials' that we take for granted. No indoor plumbing, no electric... Trying to find something to eat everyday, because there is not enough rain to grow a garden. Having to walk miles to get food or water, and not having the benefiet of modern medicines if you get sick or need an operation...
Yea, the 'back to basic' sort of life...
No thanks! I like my Home, but, thats because Im partially disabled. If I was able to work, I would get my two legs under me and walk out (with out any pain), and go make a living, simply because thats what a man is made to do.
It goes back to hunting and gathering. A man is made to hunt for food, providing for his family, while a woman (no woman libbers on this one, ok?), was made to gather the grains, and take the food we brought in and cook and keep the cave or tent neat, (we go back that far...).
The only reason we have capitolism is so that we can have progress. We have transportation systems, so we can have food in stores, so we dont scrabble for food. We have medicines, so we get rid of some sickness. We gather in cities where we have major commerce and jobs and what nots, so that we can bring together the masses, instead of spread out, so that we dont know our neighbor who maybe a mile down the road-->not that we know a lot of them now, being shut ins and the high crime areas, but, thats just the price we pay for progress!
Back to basic is not an easy life... Its for young people who want to 'feel different', but, people who are older, and have lived this type of life, would gladly trade it in, for a clean comfortable bed, some modern plumbing, and a warm meal in thier belly.
I wish you well...
JessePosted 12-30-2010 at 01:12 PM by woodworkingmenace
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You don't have to wish me anything...
Other than allowing me to enjoy my own thoughts...
But that being said...its hard for me to believe you even read anything I wrote....
I don't even know what your responding too...cause you went to such an extreme with the Afganistan reference...that I'm like 'How could they read what I wrote, and come to such a conclusion??'
There's nothing extreme or terribly odd about wanting to be left alone in the seclusion of ones own house, home, or farm or land....
What I want, is what millions of others want (and some actually have obtained already)...and that is to simple be left alone, in a remote cabin in the woods by a lake, left alone to enjoy life, away from big industry, noise and pollution....
You think I'm the only one who feels that way?
Ever been to the mountains and see all the cabins and homes hidden away?
The only difference between me and them is, they actually have the capital, money, to do it...i don't...
So please don't try to make me, or my idea of wanting to 'get away' seem like it's such a foreign, strange idea...
You can have your factory job...I'll take a cabin by a lake any day over that...
And you can join me if your nice...Posted 12-30-2010 at 05:06 PM by Time and Space
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I'm not working at the moment...haven't in weeks, maybe a month now...not living off of anything but my own savings...luckly expenses are fairly low...
That being said, unlike any other time in my life...
I really could careless if I ever worked again in a day of my life...
What I mean by that is working for a wage that will keep me impoverished and or working a job that I have no interest in at all what so ever...
I'd almost rather just live in a tent and be free...
Never before have I felt so irrelevant, when it comes to what people want...or think they want...
I'm no longer spurned on by this urge or passion that I can change any company ect ect ect...
Reality has shown me what others really think of me, initially...(no, not the photo art) but I just mean in general when you apply somewhere...
I'm just no longer in kiss butt mode, trying to act enthused at getting a job somewhere that is no where near where my interest lie, or use to...
So it's like in a way, I've given up, I've grown tired of trying to impress man, people, humans, and realize I can't...either they like you or they don't...and even if they do like you, it seems today ever complex hireing process still could very well filter you out...
None of it appeals to me anymore...I'm just tired...wore out...tired of the game, the hussle...and really don't feel inspired anymore...
I just can't compete with those who annually earn $5 million dollars, and get bonuses of $2 million....
I'm burned out, and I feel it...
Human nature has just become to thick to navigate through...just read all the ignorant posts on here...
Never knew how small people were on the inside...and to think I'm trying to impress people who have the same insight and shallowness as many who post on here...
How discouraging...very very discouraging...
So I'd be content just to sit at home forever or until my time expires, cause man just doesn't inspire me anymore...and I realize I can't impress him no more...
Anyways...that's just how my mood is today, at this moment...could always change in a few hours...you know how moods are...Posted 12-12-2011 at 03:28 AM by Time and Space
