Great post, Rosana! You're totally right; this is a bizarre world run for many hundreds of years by rich older white guys for their own benefit. Time to envision something different!
I too jettisoned my alarm clock during the pandemic and only use one now if I have to go to the airport or something like that. I never want to go back!
I've been lucky that way. Started freelancing in 1997, and then I worked in tech, where (at least here in the Bay Area), people would wander in at 10am. It feels so much better to wake up naturally! Though the other morning, some asshole mocking bird woke me up at dawn. 😂
I was riding my bike in Alameda today, and when it came time to cross one of our larger intersections, where two 4 lane roads meet, with medians in the middle, I I looked across the center of the intersection when it was empty, and I was amazed at how vast it was. It looked like a football field of asphalt, a size required by the fact that so many lanes of road were intersecting there. It struck me for a moment as strange, and perhaps not normal, that we have to devote such vast amounts of our precious earth to asphalt just so that we can transport ourselves from one place to another. Imagine if we had the ability to just materialize ourselves in different places without the need for physical paths. It would still be nice to have foot paths to walk around, and bicycle paths to ride on, but for the larger trips, it would be great to just be able to appear wherever we wanted to, without having so much space devoted to asphalt and concrete. That’s a normal I’d like to imagine.
Rosana, if you're weird, then I'm weird too. Weirdness is a judgment, and I try to avoid people who are judgmental. Any weirdness that others might assign to you is you choosing to be you. Don't change unless you want to.
As usual, context is important. We should be free to choose if it doesn't hurt others; we do live in a society with other people. We should also be given the information we need to make informed choices.
We bump into each other on a regular basis. It's almost inevitable. We have choices. First, try not to bump into each other. Second, when it happens, everybody apologize, without concerning themselves with determining who is at fault. Third, no shoving, period.
Great post, Rosana! You're totally right; this is a bizarre world run for many hundreds of years by rich older white guys for their own benefit. Time to envision something different!
Thank you, Steve! It certainly is time!
I too jettisoned my alarm clock during the pandemic and only use one now if I have to go to the airport or something like that. I never want to go back!
I've been lucky that way. Started freelancing in 1997, and then I worked in tech, where (at least here in the Bay Area), people would wander in at 10am. It feels so much better to wake up naturally! Though the other morning, some asshole mocking bird woke me up at dawn. 😂
I was riding my bike in Alameda today, and when it came time to cross one of our larger intersections, where two 4 lane roads meet, with medians in the middle, I I looked across the center of the intersection when it was empty, and I was amazed at how vast it was. It looked like a football field of asphalt, a size required by the fact that so many lanes of road were intersecting there. It struck me for a moment as strange, and perhaps not normal, that we have to devote such vast amounts of our precious earth to asphalt just so that we can transport ourselves from one place to another. Imagine if we had the ability to just materialize ourselves in different places without the need for physical paths. It would still be nice to have foot paths to walk around, and bicycle paths to ride on, but for the larger trips, it would be great to just be able to appear wherever we wanted to, without having so much space devoted to asphalt and concrete. That’s a normal I’d like to imagine.
Sounds like Star Trek!
Rosana, if you're weird, then I'm weird too. Weirdness is a judgment, and I try to avoid people who are judgmental. Any weirdness that others might assign to you is you choosing to be you. Don't change unless you want to.
Thank you, Barbara! To be honest, I embrace being weird. ❤️
What matters most is the freedom to choose. Choose monogamy or choose polygamy. Choose margarine or butter. Pasteurized or unpasteurized milk.
But no one should choose to force their values on anyone else.
As usual, context is important. We should be free to choose if it doesn't hurt others; we do live in a society with other people. We should also be given the information we need to make informed choices.
We bump into each other on a regular basis. It's almost inevitable. We have choices. First, try not to bump into each other. Second, when it happens, everybody apologize, without concerning themselves with determining who is at fault. Third, no shoving, period.