A Beautiful Life

Life is rather perfect right now: summer is here, another software development cycle is over and new plans are taking shape. I’ve almost been at Blurb for 11 months and it’s been quite an experience – a wild ride if you will.

Right after Yahoo! I needed time off and took it. But I also knew as soon as I left the employed world I needed to – eventually – find a new gig to pay the bills. That created both a certain stress and uncertainty. Most common known as fear which was fueled by the surrounding world’s pro-work opinions.

The real truth is that employment induces a false security thanks to the monthly cash-flow and the sense of belonging and perceived value creation. But it could end any day and it should end any day. Work is not a physical place but a state of mind and a purpose.

The whole world is created around monthly salaries: mortgages, consumption, vacations et cetera. It’s all based on the short-term return while we all know that it’s the long-term investment that has got the best ROI.

Once that revelation hit me I’ve felt liberated ever since. There is no need to adapt your consumption to your present cash-flow or to mortgage your salary for the next 30-years. True financial freedom is to wake up in the morning knowing that what you do has a purpose and the bills are getting paid.

That’s my state-of-mind right now: I live a very creative life w/o the pressure to consume but the desire and drive to live, explore and learn.