Lessons Everyone Knows That I'm Learning Late

There is a fundamentally wise saying, Work Will Set You Free, that contains an interlaced wisdom that is sadly overshadowed by its inauspicious location above the entrance to Auschwitz.

It isn't just that working provides a level of freedom and stability, it's also a matter of distancing one from their problems. As long as you have something in front of you that needs to be typed, or a hole to be dug, or a call to make - what have you - then there is a mental/emotional distance from your life that is achieved.

I have found from a life of avoiding jobs and employment that given enough space in your head you will find ways to attack yourself for things that cannot be as much of an issue as you can make them.

There is something reassuring and calming about having the mental space to think about a problem or situation. There is a firm and life-assuring quality to closure. There is something fundamentally wrong with taking a mental sledgehammer to the insides of your mind and remodelling your perceptions of events ad naseum.

So, here I am, coming to the end of a week spent frantically applying to every job that requires no experience, is located within a 400 mile radius, doesn't involve driving (because I just cannot do that), and doesn't require me to know anything except how to read, write, and speak.

As you might imagine, its going slowly, and there is an eerie whistling wind sound and visions of tumbleweeds in my non-existent bank account.

So for all of you out there that already work, I salute you. And for those of you who live comfortably without needing to work, I suggest that you find something to do with your time before the time, to be quaint, finds something to do with you.

Time apparently is a fan of poorly conceived melodrama and reality television.