Given

100k plus indicates I wasn't given at least the basic rights of a secondary education to guide through the actual preparation to being something.

I wasn't given it but I damn sure wanted to be given it, amongst many other things and situations.

When I was young, I wanted to be given a spot in a band with minimal dedication to an instrument or a dedicated craft.

Now, a bit older, I want a good round of golf, or dare I say, make that my living, which is laughable, but I want to be given that ability.

I believe kids should be given innate rights, like a path to affordable, life appropriate secondary education, amongst many other things.

But I want given much.

Earned is much sweeter, and concrete.  But given is easy.

By wanting easy, by being given, we diminish our place on this earth and who we were meant to be.  Our souls don't reach the heights they were meant to through being given 100k, but through blood, sweat, and tears, earning it.

I'm not sure if I believe that or if I'm trying to convince myself out of the pain of 100k plus vs the other options.

I still hope for the givens, whether that's from the government or a relative.  But that's not right.  That's not a life fulfilling way to go about each day.

I'm not Dave Ramsey.

I'm 100kplus.

Goals

In lieu of New Years resolutions, I have kept yearly goals for some time.

I'm having trouble in 2022 as coming off 2020 where the penned goals were to survive physically and in my current position.  2021 was a bounce back of sorts, with goals and accomplishments at the start of the year.

But 2022 has started with a spudder, and an almost blank page of goals for the year.

Whether thats motivation, or mood, or inspiration, the goals then shift to smaller, more achievable goals.  Monthly goals, goals for the weekend.

This helped signficantly when I was working 7 days a week, trying to keep sanity.  The goals tethered my resolve while giving hope through the goal line.

I've always looked at the results without understanding there's a process.

I.e. I still look at the result and ignore the work to get to the result.  There are some analogies to the feeling but my mind only went with golf.  I.e. if I want to break a certain score, only focusing on the number and not on the micro tasks to get to the goal.

So, as I digress in writing, I also digress in goal making.

Hoping to pen some weekly goals, in lieu of yearly goals.  Until the motivation and the inspiration arises.

Doing what we love vs Doing what we have to

At some point, all of us do what we have to.

This takes away from what we want to.

Whether this is at the macro, or micro, level, this focus on Production in our everyday lives, whether thats at the 9-5 or through support of our relationships ie parenting or in partnership with another.  That, in a sense, is the Production we want but its also the necessary daily Production, that can easily turn into consumption.

The desire to Produce in a more macro level with Production that is driven from desire and forward thinking diminishes...and we create a world that is not focused on Production but consumption to get to the next day.

I read an article today about a man a couple years younger who was able to dispel his student loans through the public service program and he immediately felt the need, and runway that wasnt afforded him in indebtedness, to run for local political office.  He then stressed the student loan relief directly allowed him to have this path, and that diminishing amount of civil servants or those looking to serve in the comminity is dwindled by the inability, and weight, that comes with large debt burdens in result of student loans.

It is rather ironic, as with many things, that we move forward by indebting our lives to creditors to not be able to move forward to the positions and careers we're paying to forge.

It's not irony.

Its capitalism.

An angry, hungry, unregulated (or unregulated to protect the mark and allow the rich to get richer) animal looking to devour any life for its marginal gain.

Production isn't an easy daily proposition, but with burdens outside the normal, consumption continues to the same harrowing levels.

Possibly this is where the separation happens, to unzip the middle class and allow the upper to oversee the peasants, to rinse and repeat history and a storyline we've written ourselves.

Extra Production

I guess its in the margins where we win.

But if its in the meat that we'll spend most of our time, is it worth settling for negative production.

Consumption is what our economy is presicared on, the necessity to crear capitalism.

But, very much in the same way, is the production side.  The empitomate yin and yanf of each other.

However, what occurs in a capitalistic society is capital rules.  So, production is in fact worth much more economically as that is where the extra comes from.  While a consumer uses their extra for consumption and creates a loss of economic "wealth" to fund a necessity.

If fair price is exchanged for the good, then capitalism does not play as significant a role, however, capitalism puts a cash premium on production, so either way, the consumer is going to lose economically to gain a good/service.

Consumption is a necessity to get us through the day: basic food needs, shelter, clothing, these are needs of all at a minimum.   But the consimption of extra is where the margins are lost and won.

I am very bad at feeding my family takeout for most dinners.  For the most part, there is usually a fair exchange for the good, a necessity for human living, however the premium exists and is scalable to the good/service.

To not be one of these 100k plusers, whether that be by college, health, life or otherwise, consumption should not be life' plan, goal, or daily pursuit.

Production.

But production in a vast sense, while these daily musings are my poor attempt at production.

Consumption is easy, albiet exhausting.

Production takes care and thought.

Consume Less, Produce More

I've not had an inspiration to write any goals for 2022, a practice Ive probably done for 15 - 20 years, maybe less on paper.

But with thought, Consume Less, Produce More was the only thought I had as a goal.

The writing I've wanted to put out there was to lean towards this subject, but I've continued to Consume More, and Produce Nil, or production for other parties, mainly work, which has to take a level of our production, if our systems are built that way.

Consumption is easy, and what the world would have us be, especially as the cog in a capatilstic driven society.  With capatilists, there must also be the demand from the consumption.

My consumtpion continues to evolve, as ours do, but that should not outweigh our production so signficantly.  It is very evident where those who have been able to produce versus consume, albiet much less as the system that capatilism has created has a consumer need, so our lives our innudated with feeds to be consumers.

So, my goal for 2022.  The only one I can muster, or Produce, is Consume Less, Produce More.

Today - Bridging the Gap

The internet was meant to bridge a gap between the knowledge and the not so knowledgable.

Social media was meant to bridge a gap in human interaction.

Both have driven us forward as a society, but also ripped apart self and sense.

Up to social media, we had to navigate the relationships we have on a daily basis.  Normally, from point A to point B; father, mother, children, neighbor, spouse, friend, and possibly foe.  But all we could normally see smell and touch.

The phone got us close.

TV, a little closer.

Internet, closing in on too close for comfort.

And finally, social media.

Both our gifts and curses, in all technology mediums.

But as we have attempted to bridge gaps in human interaction, we've removed other necessary emotions and interactions, to be so facial that, we all can live in our silos as the thought of community and society degrades around us.

I joined TheFacebook as one of the first universities, well before what we know as Facebook.

I still buy the Koolaid.

But that doesn't mean the system around us isn't broken, just because we continue to consume.

Our interactions as humans will continue down this path until we decide as individuals, in a society thats stripped of individualism, to take a stand against voicing our every opinion and creating opposition at every turn.

To me that says Civil War.

And you may say wrong.  Never.

Look outside as our lives are destroyed by information, mis-information, disease, guns.

Or don't.

And keep living our day to days seperate and divided, while faking relationships on platforms meant to economize You.

I know I dont know how to push stop.

But I'm beginning to see we're the problem; the lack of society, by any group.  Those that shun to those that are so accepting that there's a clash of opinions that we have been taught and engineered to fight for.

Instead of fighting for us, for the survival our our bodies, the surivial of our souls, the survival of community and sense and purpose.

As we continue to cut these interactions for the many interactions we may superficially run into within the infinite walls of the internet, these new waters are not those that we have beem built to withstand, evolutionarily or as God-fearing individuals, or not so God-fearing.

Emotion.

Fear.

Discourse.

These will all come to you, no matter the side of the fence.

We don't need the elevated sense of disillusion brought on by social media.

But maybe, it is a societal thing, and we are in the middle of the end of America leading the way.

The community and sense of country felt from 9/11 is far from 20 years ago, and it was our last gathering as Americans to fight against a common good, for our fellow man.

Our fight seems to be us, and we will watch as countries who chose to press on see a change in their course.

That may be conjecture, but there is a brokenness in the day to day that seems irreversible.

At the top of this land, and the bottom.

Entitled - We are all entitled.

I guess (as noone with with much true vicerol self belief might say) that Ive found the conclusion of Entitled.

That we are all Entitled.

And to stamp the Unentitled.

Sounds like we need to be knocked down a peg or two.

Certianly not the hope and positivity we need in the state of this pandemic, as we separate ourselves from society, but there needs to be some practical road map, as well as some deeming words.

Words these day, and all days, spark fire, war, hate, but I also hope hope, love, and the like prevail.

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Thats a great blogpost title... Hope, love, and the like :)

I hope for more of a vision for Entitled and love,and the like the formation of what could be considered somewhat of the objective.