Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Diversions

Money is a very evil thing. If it didn't exist I'd probably be happily doing what I like with no issues what so ever. But school loans come a knocking and college is saying, oops, there was this form you had to sign that we failed to call you about and therefore the financial aid we said you had isn't in fact going toward your tuition...soooo have fun scrambling to try to pay us back while we charge interest.
The world is a mess. And it's a mess and a stress mostly due to this one inane, worthless on its own, vaguely defined thing called money. It drives dictators to starve their countries' populations it, causes economic downturns, provides incentive for environmental depletion and pollution, and is pretty much an overall bad guy. When it comes to money we lose sight of our fellow human being and cause endless suffering of the behalf of a greater idea that brings war and destruction upon us.
And we are addicted and reliant on the ironically named green stuff.
I wish I could cut off my addiction. Maybe once I've payed off these loans and bought some land I can just subsistence farm and cut myself off from civilization.
Ok, enough of the negativity. I have taken a long break from writing, but have gotten back to it. I'm working on 30,000 words on my first draft, but have decided to take time to write a short story. It helps to do a quick project to keep the brain juices flowing when you aren't feeling motivated enough to finish the larger one quite yet.
Money is a very evil thing. If it didn't exist I'd probably be happily doing what I like with no issues what so ever. But school loans come a knocking and college is saying, oops, there was this form you had to sign that we failed to call you about and therefore the financial aid we said you had isn't in fact going toward your tuition...soooo have fun scrambling to try to pay us back while we charge interest.
The world is a mess. And it's a mess and a stress mostly due to this one inane, worthless on its own, vaguely defined thing called money. It drives dictators to starve their countries' populations it, causes economic downturns, provides incentive for environmental depletion and pollution, and is pretty much an overall bad guy. When it comes to money we lose sight of our fellow human being and cause endless suffering of the behalf of a greater idea that brings war and destruction upon us.
And we are addicted and reliant on the ironically named green stuff.
I wish I could cut off my addiction. Maybe once I've payed off these loans and bought some land I can just subsistence farm and cut myself off from civilization.
Ok, enough of the negativity. I have taken a long break from writing, but have gotten back to it. I'm working on 30,000 words on my first draft, but have decided to take time to write a short story. It helps to do a quick project to keep the brain juices flowing when you aren't feeling motivated enough to finish the larger one quite yet.