hello everyone
i have read all the morning email from the squad and find that many are
upset with the structure here, or lacking of it, and make many suggestions
for tightening things up around here to make it easier for the work-a-holics
among us to keep up.
yes its much easier to keep up without working eight or ten hours a day (he
smiles as he sips his second cup of coffee) and i do speak from experience.
and i think earning a living is a wonderful thing for most people. it keeps
all the delinquents in line. either they go out and get a job or they starve
and we dont have to worry about them any more. i really love the weekdays
when there are no one in the stores and the roads are clear of traffic
because everyone is off working.
many years ago i asked myself, as i wandered thru a forest, why it was that
the trees didnt have to earn a living, or the squirrels that scampered among
them. i wondered why it was that of all the creatures on this earth, humans
were the only ones who felt obliged to earn a living by working away their
lives for something they could never hope to hold onto anyway. i felt that
there must be a better way.
so one day, i looked around me to see what needed doing that no one else
seemed to be taking care of. i found so many things! and all i needed to do
was to pick one little thing and do it...for a couple hours a day...and all
my needs were taken care of. magic? mysticism? no...nothing like that. but i
found the biggest drawback to just doing what was needed was a patterned way
of thinking that had been instilled in me since i was born...work is
necessary. structure is necessary.
i felt guilty having free time. why should i be free to enjoy a sunshiney
day while my fellow humans were all working? its true! that was an
incredibly hard notion to overcome, the guilt that i should be doing
something, anything. over the years though, i have come to see with clarity
just why it is that earning a living is expected and indeed demanded by
society. and the same reasons are all mentioned in this mornings emails.
structure, structure, structure. we need structure! we demand structure! and
most of all, we are instilled with structure.
i am here, living proof, that structure is not a very high value situation.
i deplore structure. if i had to work eight hours a day i would go slowly
insane, unless i buttressed myself with alcohol and drugs. interestingly,
destructuring agents to counteract the over structured.
my guilt is gone now. i do what i need to do and i love doing it. if i feel
like sleeping in, i simply schedule my appointments for later in the
morning. and if i feel like taking a few days off, i simply dont schedule
any work. and i have the time to home-school my 15 year old son and run a
household as a single parent and contribute regularly to the squad,
something that would be impossible if i were working 8 hours a day.
so to all those 8 hour a day earning a living people, you have my sympathy
and my prayers. the Machine is a harsh taskmaster, but you are only chained
to it by your own desire for structure.
but lets not make the Lila Squad into a job too.
best wishes
glove
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