Hello Job, is it me you are looking for?
The old adage goes "If I had a penny....".
People are so curious to know how I survive in one of the most expensive cities in the world (actually, according to the Economist, it is sitting at 23rd = with LA). Well, lets say if I had a dollar for every time I was asked, I wouldn't be broke, that's for sure!
The answer: pretty bloody badly!
Since being blessed with ample time to ponder the meaning of life, I have made a couple of discoveries some of you might like to learn. I have had to dig through the lightest and darkest parts of my soul to find these... or perhaps it all just came shooting out like a 13 month pimple... Either way, it may save you the trouble of finding out for yourselves.
ZEN moments:
It is only when you truly have nothing do you discover the riches that lay within yourself. What did Saint-Exupery say? “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye”. I suspect he’d never been unemployed!
Money is only really working for you when it buys you time with people you love and peace of mind. Living so far from home has made this a hard lesson for me.
Unemployment could be the only true blank slate I get: the opportunity to remember the dreams I held when I was 20 and then sold out to 'survival'.
It'll be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it's not the end.
Not-so-ZEN moments:
When you have nothing, when you can't socialize like you use to, when you're having a "screw you" day - money helps (if only temporarily).
Money will never make me happy - but it would give me a much better standard of misery!
When you find yourself in a living hell - keep walking.
Can I have my dollar now?
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