We enter the second, full week of the new year, life is getting back to normal, the one show and inside out is back on the tv. Eastenders is carrying on with its morbid storyline, so it is a very normal day. I have had a day of driving a Leyland Olympian followed by a Volvo. It is a new year and my mind are on trying new things this year, first I need to get the first few weeks out the way, which are always financially tight.
It is a tight time for the coach industry, as there is a slump in the Private hire market. A couple of coach firms have already gone bust this year, Diamond Holidays of South Wales is the most notable casualty. Things will pick up in March when the touring season starts.
My attempt at Landscape photography is a new approach to things, I suppose I have a bit of an interest, and to be honest I do like a nice picture, I suppose we all do. With digital photography, things are made easy by the fact that no film needs to be purchased, processed, and the only thing you need is a bit of software to improve the pictures, not compulsory though. I am going to try and make more time for myself and my friends, maybe take in holiday this year, it is nearly 12 years since I went off the France to enjoy a months stay. Now there is a happy memory, and I cant believe that so much water has flowed under the bridge in that time.
To be honest I went to France to escape the jobseekers system, which I hated, I wanted to work at the time, but was finding it difficult stepping on that first wrung of the ladder. The fact that I didnt have a driving licence went against my favour too. So I saved hard and got out. The funny thing is within a month of returning I got a job at Dunn-Line. My career had begun, and I joined during a very exciting time for the company.
I have always looked at life and society, as a giganitc pdgeon hole, and everyone in society had to fit in to that particular place, and life was supposedly mapped out, whereby we start school at a very early age, and the conditioning begins, So we are taught the system, given the skills that will help us get the jobs to keep the factories going, ensuring that the fabric of society does not begin to unravel. After school comes, college, or work.
We are then encouraged to find a partner, buy a house, get mortgaged up to the eyeballs, start a family and live a life where we work hard, pay our taxes, spend disposable income on holidays and goods we dont need, apply for credit cards and basically borrow beyond our means, this keeps the banks in business.
As you can see this is the pattern of lots of peoples lives, and many live structured lives, but there are the ones who do not fit in, be it because they have differant ideas about life, these are the people who wake up one day and think, hang on, I dont want to follow the crowd. I dont want to marry, have kids and many other countless reasons. We need money to survive, but the reason we need it is because society puts alot of things around it, to be honest money is just bits of metal pieces of paper and figures on a spreadsheet, however the movement of it affects everyone in life, and people are judged on how much we have.
I remember studying Maslows pyramid of needs, which structured life in to a hierarchical pattern, where our basic need was at the bottom and self fulfilment is right at the top. How many people actually get to that point, where they reach their own shangrila? possibly not many. We all have differant outlooks of life, some people start families, some completely turn their backs on the rat race and go in their own direction, and good luck to them. Some will find sollice in religion. We all need to find the right one for us.
So at this point you are probably thinking that I am crazy. No I am trying to find who I am and my purpose in life, but constantly questioning it. I will never know the answers, but I intend to have an interesting life, yes there are many things happening in life that I do not agree with, but by questioning them hopefully we are improve on them. I like knowledge, and like to go to lots of differant sources, even some of the so called subversive sights, now take away all the talk about UFO's world wide conspiracy, the Masons, Illuminati etc, there is some interesting info out there, but I also try and get both sides of the story to get a balanced picture.
So on that thought I am going to, before my head explodes. TTFN
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