We tend to spend a great deal of our time waiting for something to happen the right job, the right person, until retirement, for a bus... We try to convince others to our way of thinking and sit and complain when they do not adjust the way we want and then, we wait again for something to change.
I mentioned today that I am a massive procrastinator which was questioned considering the volume of work I produce but, these two things aren't in conflict.Procrastination doesn't require inaction, it is the avoidance of something that one doesn't want to do. Around exam times at university, my home was spotless as I would do anything but study and, cleaning was the lesser of the evils.
I have put so much of my effort into this place, so much mental energy but, it hasn't really eventuated to much. Steem Power distribution hasn't improved significantly as people seem to have decided that powering up is for the idiots. The same are happy tom complain about the lack of 'free' value in the pool though.
The pool is not free and the little bit of draw my SP has on it has come at a very high personal cost in time, effort and massive opportunity cost. All those people who sold SBD high, I powered most of it up. It is a funny outlook some have because they seem to think that anyone with SP somehow owes them something.
I am no whale, I am no pre-miner or delegation recipient. I am a skin in the game, sweat equity member who has poured themselves in. If this little experiment fails, the work I have put into the project amounts to exactly zero in value. I am not the only one but, there aren't many out there who have done it for 6 months like this, let alone 18 months or 2 years like a tiny few.
It is quite an interesting system really and we can see how entitlement rules the thinking of many and even though I wish my life here and IRL was easier, I know that I am not entitled to anything in either. If i want something, I have to do the work for it before there are any gains realised as to take payment before the work, is to live on a debt cycle and it is this kind of thinking that has led to the oppression of most people by middlemen, debt collectors and governments.
We paid for theschooling that we forced you to take... you owe us.
People want the freedom to live and earn as they please but, so many are waiting for others to pay their way. It is not freedom when you rely on the charity of others to survive. Freedom can never be born from necessity and it can never be had if what one must do to get paid by another, is not what is wanted to be done.
Some people will say (including me) that living on Steem is crazy but, that is only at this point due to instability and uncertainty, but potentially, there will be a future where living off it is possible. However, to live off it freely is going to require owning a little of it otherwise, one is always going to be jumping through the hoops of others with a hat out, hoping for a coin to be dropped in.
This is not just the Steem reality, this is the same thing in life where those living in debt are constantly juggling finances with very little chance to ever get out. Personally, I am well and truly tired of the increasing crushing force of reality while I sit and wait for things to be better.
Taraz
[ a Steem original ]