heydude
12-25-12, 12:10pm
Thank you everyone for all your kind words in the thread I posted about leaving.
Some asked "why make an announcement?" hehe. Well, the reason is because this forum is very MEANINGFUL to me and the act of leaving is MEANINGFUL as well.
Allow me to explain as I say my farewells.
In my college economics class, packed with over 1,000 students, we were all asked "who would work less if they were paid more?" I was the only one that raised their hand. When asked "who would work more if they were paid more?" Everyone else raised their hand.
Recently, I have been posting a lot of "guerilla" like posts. Posts meant to act like dynamite to our comfortable lives. "I love bad bosses" stating how bad bosses have motivated me the most to pay down debt. "We are losing the battle" which tried to ignite a fire on thinking about even more ways we seriously need to reconstruct our society and lives.
I have become frustrated and have found that I have, in a way, used up all that I can in terms of "cutting down." I need something more than this - Some bigger dynamite. After all the destruction, I need to build something. This year, I went through my budget line by line desperately trying to find more ways to save. I believe I have reached a point of small returns.
I have paid down student loan debt, have refinanced to get my mortgage gone soon, have lived my life simply and without things I do not need. I have cut down everything. I have scraped the bottom of the barrel.
I believe now, that I can not keep scraping. Right now, I need to morph to something constructive - something bigger.
Instead of concentrating on getting rid of, I need to morph in to building a foundation. What is that exactly? I do not know. I do know that, in this journey, I have come to a place where I need to move on and grow past.
It is but a journey and the fork in the road is here.
Thank you everyone for everything and keep up the good work.
As someone said, they like to do things all or nothing. So I am going to leave.
I want to leave you all with an article I read about the author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut. He was at a dinner party thrown by a billionaire hedge fund manager. Talking to a friend named Joseph Heller, he says their host makes more in a day than he earned from his popular novel "Catch 22" over its whole history. Heller responds, "Yes, but I have something he will never have...Enough."
Some asked "why make an announcement?" hehe. Well, the reason is because this forum is very MEANINGFUL to me and the act of leaving is MEANINGFUL as well.
Allow me to explain as I say my farewells.
In my college economics class, packed with over 1,000 students, we were all asked "who would work less if they were paid more?" I was the only one that raised their hand. When asked "who would work more if they were paid more?" Everyone else raised their hand.
Recently, I have been posting a lot of "guerilla" like posts. Posts meant to act like dynamite to our comfortable lives. "I love bad bosses" stating how bad bosses have motivated me the most to pay down debt. "We are losing the battle" which tried to ignite a fire on thinking about even more ways we seriously need to reconstruct our society and lives.
I have become frustrated and have found that I have, in a way, used up all that I can in terms of "cutting down." I need something more than this - Some bigger dynamite. After all the destruction, I need to build something. This year, I went through my budget line by line desperately trying to find more ways to save. I believe I have reached a point of small returns.
I have paid down student loan debt, have refinanced to get my mortgage gone soon, have lived my life simply and without things I do not need. I have cut down everything. I have scraped the bottom of the barrel.
I believe now, that I can not keep scraping. Right now, I need to morph to something constructive - something bigger.
Instead of concentrating on getting rid of, I need to morph in to building a foundation. What is that exactly? I do not know. I do know that, in this journey, I have come to a place where I need to move on and grow past.
It is but a journey and the fork in the road is here.
Thank you everyone for everything and keep up the good work.
As someone said, they like to do things all or nothing. So I am going to leave.
I want to leave you all with an article I read about the author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut. He was at a dinner party thrown by a billionaire hedge fund manager. Talking to a friend named Joseph Heller, he says their host makes more in a day than he earned from his popular novel "Catch 22" over its whole history. Heller responds, "Yes, but I have something he will never have...Enough."