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| ~Our friend Klietus standing at the southwest corner of our little log cabin |
Most of the time I've heard someone say this it's been a guy who feels tethered to a corporate job and encumbered by a mortgage. Take away the corporate tether and the mortgage encumbrance and you have someone who likely sleeps well at night and spends less time than most worrying about money, or more specifically, the lack of it.
Forgive the personal reference, but I was one of the guys saying this kind of thing for years and years. I'd be less than genuine if I told you we settled for a little house in the woods and an old truck, but I did decide there wasn't anything else I wanted bad enough to become beholding again to a bank or corporation in order to get it. I decided that from my perspective we had enough stuff and I was content with not having more. We gave up the chase for bigger and better. We made the conscious decision that we had enough and that we could even do with less, need be. Oh, and I did actually get the little cabin in the woods and I'm working on "the old truck" (my old truck is an old Tahoe with 261,000 miles: I won't consider it old until it hits 275).
If you feel encumbered by too many bills or too many bosses in a big corporation, give some serious thought to how you might become un-encumbered. I realize most of the folks in the world are just trying to survive and don't have the same options many of the folks reading this might have. But if you want to change your situation and feel you have options, consider exploring some of them. If you don't and you're willing to settle for the same Ol' same Ol', there's nothing wrong with that if that's what you feel most comfortable with. After-all, there's nothing wrong with driving a new car.
I must say, I really do like seeing my image in this well respected blogument. You are consistently able to capture the moment, and the perspective Rustic. Though I have slugged through the corporate life you have so eloquently described, I find solace in the fact that I've been able to do many things which have been off the track, and equally as fortunate to have found friends such as you. There is never a loss for new and exciting concepts and ideas, when hanging around with you.
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