I've been thinking about the fact that in times of personal improvement I tend to blow my dough helping other people making cool projects, instead of taking care of myself. I think this is because I am scared of improving my situation. I identify as disenfranchised, so I have trouble reaping the rewards of success and then I get all strung out from overwork.
I think the dot com boom put a lot of $$$ in the pockets of people with funny haircuts and inappropriate wardrobes. But how many bought better lives with houses, cars, health insurance, and retirement plans? And how many spent it bankrolling band tours and zines or on latex couture for friendly strippers or on booze and drugs for fifty or so of their closest personal friends?
I'm doing research for an article on this because it is very very very much on my mind at the moment.
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