I’m no longer at work, now I’m at my “summer camp” for the summertime and doing my crazy old shit again. And tonight I had my first crisis that I remember having many times back in the day, in college, in this thing last year, and more.
I had crises while at work, but they were much more hopeless, more helpless. More like just wanting to cry out in desperation as the abyss swallowed me up without any opportunity to free myself or change my course, because there is always work on monday-friday. There is no way to step back and go, I’d rather do this instead. No, it’s just you and your owners. I’ll be recovering from that for a long time.
The problem with working at my awful corporate job was that I lost the spirit to even rise up against what was bothering me and try to change it, because what was bothering me the most was the overarching standard that the company had set and I agreed to without understanding what life would be like living under it.
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