I quit my job on Monday. Reasons why will be written in a future post… a tirade obviously. No matter, as I have another job lined up paying just under double the money.
I managed to bargain this week off, only going into the office on Monday. Although this week has been comfortable, I have also been irritable. I have done the most human thing this week. I procrastinated all week and left everything until Friday. Well kind of.
I set up a limited company on Tuesday (all of about 20 minutes on the phone), then I filled out and posted the paperwork off on Wednesday, which took longer than expected, probably 3-4 hours in total. Thursday I did sod all. Friday, here we are.
Although procrastination is deemed a deadly sin in the eyes of millionaires and the like. I feel it is occasionally necessary. Through my laziness and involuntary thoughts, my subconsciousness, I realised I hadn’t written about my path in life for a while. I had become angry again. In light of this, I am now sat on a bench in a woodland area writing this post. My hands are getting colder the longer I type. The weather isn’t what I would call nice. The sky is as if a white sheet has been pulled over the world and the breeze has a chill to it. However, it is brighter out here than in my bedroom and I am content with the birds tweeting and calling in the background.
Like Frodo and Sam, my journey also became more perilous the closer I approached journey’s end, as I fought my way through thousands of tiny river flies. Little fuckfaces… the flies, not Frodo and Sam. Love them two.
So yeah, I will now be earning more money on Monday, which will be nice. Before 2018 I was always living the moment. I’ve had a pension since the age of sixteen, so I’ve always saved a little towards the end game, society’s retirement. That’s by the by. Before 2018 I would spend as I earned. My next big thing was my next holiday happening that year. I started asking questions; like what am I doing this for? Why am I here? If I am to live in society’s plan, how is that possible?
So I left my job in February 2018 and went traveling for a little over a month. This was a slap of spiritual growth right around the face. I thought to myself,
“I have been living life wrong”.
I joined a previous manager at a new job to start saving. An old friend also joined and he prioritised my understanding of the elite’s schemes.
With these two points in mind, I started the water closet blog and set a new mid-term goal. I would become nomadic. A wanderer.
So why am I angry now? I have my goals, my aspirations. I have the tools to accomplish them.
I forgot to live in the moment.
Since I vowed to walk the beaten path, I have saved almost everything and I have spent nothing on my present spiritual growth. As we know, money doesn’t buy happiness, but it does buy the freedom to be happy in the system we live in.
My hands are now so cold they are typing the wrong words. I shall write the rest of this in the warmth of my house. I shall now begin the dangerous journey back through the thousands of annoying flies.
I survived. So what’s next for me?
Now that I’m earning more money, I will look to balance my lifestyle. Save and live in the present. I look to invest some money that will autonomously grow and look after itself. I have indulged myself in multiple pastimes, as I mentioned previously, hosting to tourists in London, I have returned to my old Scout patrol to assist as a leader and I have started podcast recordings.
Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
Tip of the Day:
“Time pressure can have powerful effects on the body. Our brain regards clocks, deadlines, and interrupted schedules as a threat, and calls up the “fight or flight” stress response.
Seeing the Big Picture–Know What’s Important
Every few months – or at least once a year – step back and consider what is really most important to you (not your mates/neighbours/TV).
Seek a Balance
In many cases the motivation to overwork comes from a desire to achieve a better lifestyle or to prove one’s self-worth. Ask yourself if it’s worth it. Take a look at your life and see whether you’d lose or gain by buying and consuming less. Cutting back on work may reduce your income, but it can improve your standard of living in other ways. Virtually no one on his or her death bed ever says, “I wish I had spent more time at the office.”
Choose Simplicity
Try to limit the things which unnecessarily complicate your life. It may be difficult to say “no” when life presents us with so many possibilities, roles, and identities. We want to be a good parent, hold down a full-time job, participate in neighbourhood and community activities, take classes, go on trips, learn new skills, build new relationships, look for a better house, and cultivate sixteen hobbies. But what’s the cost? In the end, it’s not how much you’ve done or how many experiences you’ve collected that counts, but how well you have lived.
Live in the Moment
There is no moment in time other than the one that is happening right now. Being totally absorbed in what we are doing in the present is an exhilarating experience, one that makes us feel truly alive, positive, and productive. It creates the “timeless” moments during which our tensions, fears, and pressures about time evaporate.
Procrastination
Unless it has an adverse effect on you or someone else, there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with putting something off until later. In fact, sometimes you’re better off doing some things later or not at all.
To get to this state, you must learn to break the rushing habit and/or refer to the Bobby C addendum below.
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Bobby C Note: The above is very similar to the tenets of an ancient, but almost defunct religion I rekindled, which is called “NUFFING”. We pray to “The Almighty No-one”, and are only required to keep in mind a meditatory practice called “Nitto.”
Seek “Nuffing”, bow to “No-one” and try to do “Nitto” as often as possible and you are guaranteed peace of mind.
Aaaaaaite, boyeeee!!
Well said Bobby C. I appreciate your time writing this! I agree with everything you have written.