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Originally Posted by seeker5  Bruce, great question to ask! That's something that's been on my mind too - what can I do in the short term while working on what I love. Although, you state it as "live comfortably", I state it as "stay alive", how can I stay alive while I work on what I love to do?
I was looking at homeless shelters online last night to see if that would be a recourse, and it really hit me - hell no I don't want to do that. When I'm looking at cars to buy, I wonder how it'll be if I end up homeless and have to sleep in them. I really think that mindset is really bad to have though.  So your question and the answers are interesting and very relevant to me. |
Hahaha, I laughed out loud when I read that.
"Hell no" indeed.
The reason I said "live comfortably" as opposed to "staying alive" is that I wanted to avoid people saying, "you can stay alive by [insert extreme, unreasonable thing here]." I tend to try to use very specific word choice to prevent expended energy from me having to clarify things, but it seems to never work as well as I'd like it to, heh. Too much of a control strategy, I believe. Better to be authentic (although me being authentic--fully authentic--isn't something I'm sure I can do... I try my best, but there's a side--that I've mentioned in my above posts--that I'm yet to show. Glimpses, maybe, but not fully unrestrained).
I think the answer to this may have something to do a certain type of person. Interestingly, this seems to have something to do with personality types--talent--but it seems to go even deeper and be more generalised, as if energy is a core component. Now that I've seen a bit of this other perspective, I'm starting to get an idea of what's at play. And I've never seen any coverage of this, at least, from this particular perspective.
But the real solution seems to be not of the mind, and inherently hard to pin down. It's satisfying to find something as potent and challenging as this.