Work For Acceleration & Work For Momentum

The general concept expanded upon here is the notion of side work and its necessity, in the grand scheme of success and efficiency: as being suitable for helping to lay and maintain a foundation, but not to construct it outright.

To express it in simpler, equally effective (hopefully) words, here is an unfolding of the concept as I came to imagine it:

My brother has been out all night plowing to make extra money. The snow began falling some thirteen hours or so ago, and he has virtually been out there this whole time. He works his main job during the week and usually takes this task upon himself when the weather calls for it.

Now, he has put forth in the past that I do the same, explaining the payment process and et al to give me an understanding of the parameters. I have considered it lightly, not desiring to lock my free time into it--especially when the pay takes a week or so to be doled out.

It goes to be said that, in a defined system of operating, this is greatly beneficial, and really only costs precious time in the end; time now for time later, naturally. Then comes the key: how much time are you really buying yourself with the investment? For me, I think that is the defining factor. I would rather spend time with those I love--even just in proximity, so I can see them at will; to see their precious moments when they happen: which is only now.

I don't believe any of us can really say what life is truly about--presuming there is a divine, so to speak, purpose to it at all. But I will say that the people around us are the endgame. When all is said and done, it comes down to we souls, individually and the rest.

Furthermore, as I considered it, we must all strive to be individually happy, so that we don't necessarily need to see to one another--dare I say, ever again.

Perhaps the freedom of choice is ultimately what is at stake, and what we pay for.

This probably sounds like common sense, and yet what is there to lose in saying so? Unfortunately, is common sense not expensive these days? And I don't just mean slightly more expensive than nothing; I mean, at times doubly, triply, more pricey, even due in part to confusion as to what actually earns its place as common sense.

A constant companion in my life has been Why?:

• Why should I have to do this?
• Why do so-called friends treat me this way?
• Why hasn't anything simply worked out?

That top one is the real contender for this situation.

But really, I think it is because the system is so dogmatic that the set outputs are fit only to cut our wills like a razor, and that does not help the situation of progress for individuals and all the rest, now and ultimately. I mean, I took a whole week off at work just so that I could get real progress made on my comic book and my fiction book(s). I haven't had my own place for a while now. Whatever argument could be made by society is moot, anyway. People make judgments for the lack in others of what they already have, or what they have not had to worry about for so long that they take their very gains or allotments for granted and/or kismet.

I have less of an issue with doing things for an adequate purpose than for doing things simply because society demands it, particularly when it is my very survival which is on the line, ironic as that may sound. I would rather have the very, very basics--essentially a toilet and shower, matters of food access being a secondary thing.

I won't deny, in truth, that I have remained, or taken upon the guise or actions of, a "loser" in the process; I have arguably taken from others selfishly (to a degree that matters, so to speak), sold myself short, made due with the available circumstances, dumbed my own emotions and desires down, taken the comfortable and mindless way out in many a situation, etc. I simply am not alive to be a victim of the system, though going through self-imposed hardships in the process.

I am who I am, even though I have not acted effectively to live up to that standard in this day to day world we share. I know what I have to offer, and how I may offer such things, and to a degree of confidence my own truths.