I was talking to a good friend of mine over lunch about a great many things, but we were mostly talking about the company we work for, the current world insanity, the economic conditions and the inherent weakness and inevitable crash and what we might be able to do about surviving. He asked me what I would do if crypto went high enough that I would be comfortable to sell enough to be debt free (and him knowing me quite well) and still be comfortable with my holdings. I am not even going to get into what my portfolio would need to be worth to do that, but let's just say - quite a bit more.
While there is no reason to get ahead of ourselves and count chickens before they have hatched, it is also beneficial to understand where we want to be and what we would do if we get there. As I said t my friend, I am hoping to be in a debt-free position (completely) and live a life where it doesn't matter what job I do, it will provide enough to cover a basic life. He asked if I would stay in my current roles and I think that I would for a time to see if I could work on something else - not just train. With the skills of people in my company, it is a potential pool of developers I could leverage also.
However, I think that I would make sure that I could spend far more time writing, on Hive, but also off Hive. Without needing to be too concerned about meeting financial obligations, I would have the space to invest myself into doing something I value, write, which is something I didn't value a few years ago.
I am not a writer, but, who really is - what qualifications does one actually need? As I have probably said before, I don't really understand why so many people get formal educations for skills that can be learned through practice - unless it is their goal to get a job and it is a prerequisite for employment. But since I won't be needing a job in this hypothetical future, education is rather meaningless - so I can be an out of work writer without having to hold a certificate to say I am qualified to be an out of work writer.
One of the things that I like about being a content creator on Hive is that my formal education doesn't matter as much as my experience. Yes, I do have an education, but that is not where I source my material, style, structure or language - everything I write is through my various experiences in life. I don't mean that I just tell what happens, I mean that i write about what I think about and use my writing as a tool to explore those thoughts, to take what is inside and externalize it.
There are obviously many ways to write and whether a journalist, novelist or a blogger, there are many ways to segment each path also. The beauty of writing is that it is not only an information stream, it is an art form where each member of the audience is going to interpret it through their eyes and find value or lack thereof in different ways to the person reading the same thing beside them.
I see it kind of like music, where depending on experience and mood, a can take on a very different meaning as the context from which it is viewed changes. A love song heard by a teenager with a new crush, could take on a very different meaning forty years later, when that crush they have spent and built their life with, dies from a terminal illness. Same song, different meaning.
Perspective and context matters to how we approach and behave in the world, which means that while I might "plan" what I would do if financially secure, I am planning from a position that is not that - which means that with the experience of it, I might change my mind as I discover what I thought I wanted then, was not suitable for the new conditions I find myself in. Humans aren't very good at predicting how future events are going to make us feel, let alone act, when we get there.
For me, I have never been in the position where I am both debt free and do not have to worry about what kind of job I have - normally, I have had to do all the jobs I can to stay ahead. This means that my experience of "leisure time" is quite low, so I might not be great at predicting what I would do with it, with the predictions I make based on very little. How can we know what we want to do when we don't know what it is like to be living the conditions we are aiming for?
When we look into the future, we are hoping to be somewhere better than we are, we are hoping to have progressed in some way, financially, emotionally, physically, mentally - something. While we do aim for something, we can't really know if what we aim for is suitable for us and these days, we tend to onboard the wants of the collective culture, which is one the the family, car and house with a picket fence is an enduring meme in society. This process is probably also why so many people are discontent with their lives, even though they keep "winning" and reaching the goals for which they aim.
We all need something to satisfy our purpose, it doesn't mean we know what it is or aim for it. So we can be surrounded with prizes and accomplishments and still have that hole inside us looking for fulfillment. Do you know your purpose, do you know what fulfills you? Shouldn't this be a ridiculously easy question to answer and if you have the answer, does this mean you are fulfilled in your life? Are you working toward fulfillment at least?
It is easy to say "if I won the lottery I would..." but it seems that once people do, very few do what they thought they would.
Taraz
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