Tough Time to be Free

Times are tough for us down here. I live in a special place where people like me, single taxpayers, are pretty much left out in the middle of nowhere in this time of crisis. No business. No work no pay. Nothing. The bad news is, we still need to pay the bills. I just want to say we are human beings too hey! But the drama won't work. We are quite outnumbered so our issues are deemed insignificant. We got to fend for ourselves until this is all over. We got to hold on. The question is until when? Our lockdown has been extended due to the high number of cases in the main city.

Unfortunately, I need to power down a little bit. It's not because I am leaving Steemit. I just want to make sure I won't run out of funds in real life. Anyway, I've always treated my Steem here as savings. So I can get something in tough times like this. The more reason I need to stick around here. For the money and the community. Even though these days, I feel like people are just posting and going. I don't know, it feels like talking to an empty space.

I am busy with gardening lately, investing a bit of my money buying vegetable seeds and plants. I don't have a big garden space. I will just make the most of what I have. My plan is to be a bit self-sufficient in the future, if not fully. Because honestly, I don't know anymore. I can't sit here, whine all day, and demand for help. Nothing is going to change in this society. Now it makes you wonder why they didn't teach us about self-sustainability, entrepreneurship, freethinking, self-sufficiency, etc. We were taught to follow the normal pattern and live a paycheck to paycheck life. We were taught to go go go and get get get. So in times like this, we know who to depend on. We know who to vote for. Or where to turn to when we feel helpless and desperate. It all feels like politics to me.

Social media has become very toxic these days. Smells like class war to me. I've seen friends clinging on to their dogma and basket of beliefs however intellectually crippling. I've seen privileged friends who are very much into welfare mentality without first-hand experience of what they fight for. While some are demanding fairness in this unfair world. It is hard to take sides these days. A lot has happened in my life in the past few years. I've been both taken advantage of by the poor and the rich. I've immersed myself in both sides. I have my take on different angles.

A friend used to say, the most painful question is why. The big WHY. I feel like there's an invisible hand that lead us into this direction. And now they are dangling meats in front of our faces turning us into obedient dogs. It makes me think that after this is all over, we will come out either changed or unchanged. Dumber or wiser. But we should know by now. We should know now how important it is to be self-sufficient and not depending on powerful people to live.

Perhaps we can make use of this free time to think and reflect on what's going on around us and come up with our own action plans. I just hope that doesn't include eating other people. I guess the most powerful thing we can give ourselves is independence. It is going to be hard sure. But I don't think anyone, especially the already powerful, will give that kind of power to us. We have to give that to ourselves, that freedom.