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[daven_callings]

So, fun day: was robbed at gun point this morning downtown, had several hundred dollars taken, and had to walk over an hour to get to work, thus arriving late and sweaty and ornery. Received some help with bus fare from a coworker and two customers, for which I'm thankful; have to conduct "damage control" with rent and my P.O. box renewal.

Comments

[artemiswinter]

I don't even know. It sucks so much that this happened to you.

I get what you mean about trying to escape the addiction to money. I hate needing it, I hate thinking about it, but it rules our lives, whether we like it or not. :(

[daven_callings]

There's a part of me that really reaches out to the hard-core/anarchist/freegan ideals that reject capitalist living, but that part of me clashes with the realities of what is required to live my life as I want to live it at this time. Knowing I need money to maintain housing, food, and the other various entertainments of life, it places me in the position to ask, are the ideals that appeal to me what's wrong, or are the wants and shiny objects that I'm attracted to wrong? Or do I need to find some balance between the two?

What really shocked me, after the fact, was how I was less concerned about my safety and more worried about paying rent and creditors and affording a drink at a bar. Puts "me" in perspective.