Not A Robot

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Current mood: groggy I was just outside and ate breakfast. I had scrambled eggs, homefries, turkey bacon, whole wheat toast, juice and peppermint tea. I confess I put ketchup on the potatoes. I sat in the same booth I always do, the one by the window that looks across at my unattractive, brown bricked building and watched (and photographed) the people passing. I am so off the track of a 9 to fiver that the people running about at 8am seem to be like insane worker bees to me. Where are they going? why? why so fast? for how long? how many years? I was at the diner and I must say the breakfast was perfect and I used all spare change. I payed the $6.26 in dimes, nickels and quarters. I enjoy paying for breakfast like this at the diner it makes me feel I am alive during the depression or in the fifties the very least. Incidentally I have been frequenting the same diner in one form or another for thirty years and the woman is the same Greek wife of the the same Greek husband owner. She starts work at 4:30 am and has done so for 35 years and this baffles me. She works so hard and as she says "just to pay the bills"! What kind of life have we let the ruling class arrange for us the working poor? I had things to do out but honestly I was looking forward to heading back home not long after breakfast. It was tiring to watch all these people run about like chickens with no heads! and for what and for whom? Whom do we really serve? our land lords, the banks, insurance companies, ATT, Sprint, Verizon, Con Ed, Time Warner and so on... We keep adding bills that we never had like internet and Cable to the long list along with taxes (for our wars) and they always nickel and dime us so it get more expensive for us as it gets cheaper for them! My answer to this is to work for myself or try my best to become self made. At the moment I am forced to live as a "starving artist" since I hurt my ankle on a job some time back already and I cannot be Mr. Johnny on the spot as the Man demands me to be. This injury has prevented me from working and so I have had time to reflect on the value of passive income and working for myself (as I have in the past). Until recently I was content to do both and even when working for myself as a Freelancer I found myself in truth still "serving" someone and this in itself I find unreasonable at times and not in tune with what I want in my life. What I want is to make money passively and this is the key to being self made. I need to focus on this and using my talents to reach this end. Wish me luck! (Ha Luck is for Rabbits!) ...... but I could still use it!