<3 Yes, for some reason reminding me of that Stars song "Your Ex-Lover is Dead". . . . . "when there's nothing left to burn you've got to set yourself on fire."
It's a bizarre time to be a funny man because the situation is very un-funny. Kids are interestingly pretty affordable if you keep them out of school, out of activities, out of nursery school, out of needless karate lessons, and with few toys and only library books. I think a lot of the "kids are expensive" shit is kind of a psyop, it includes in it the assumption that you've got to buy your kids tons of shit.
It is true with food, however. Buying your kids nice food is fucking expensive. I remember when my son went from having a few bites of my steak to needing his own steak, suddenly farmer's market bill doubled. But the rest of having kids is negotiable IMHO. The most expensive part is needing to spend time with them and that's time you can't be working for money. It's such a shitty trade off this world is wild. Thank you for writing.
"I've been trying to express my change creatively to acquire capital" --Oof. I felt that one. I've been writing for a while about my personal experiences with homelessness and the insights I've gained from that. It often feels weird to capitalize off of this experience. Especially knowing that I am sitting comfortably now and have afforded the luxury of time to intellectualize the experience, and really dig into what that meant for me. Most do not. I feel like there's a problem with integrity for me with this kind of writing...but alas, it's work that needs to be done.
I'm just sharing this because I think I saw a reel you posted once about being so broke in LA on a hike that you might as well have been wild. I related to that a lot, actually, and I find it really helpful and refreshing when people are this candid about their financial burdens. I know that if more people were this open about it, it wouldn't feel as alienating.
There is also an interesting insight here on the common narrative that people are perpetuating about childlessness. It is strange how meeting basic needs has been redefined as luxury and it goes over the heads of most people.
This world needs a top down reinvention. In business they sack the managers if a team is underperforming and costing stockholders money. That's what the world needs.
<3 Yes, for some reason reminding me of that Stars song "Your Ex-Lover is Dead". . . . . "when there's nothing left to burn you've got to set yourself on fire."
It's a bizarre time to be a funny man because the situation is very un-funny. Kids are interestingly pretty affordable if you keep them out of school, out of activities, out of nursery school, out of needless karate lessons, and with few toys and only library books. I think a lot of the "kids are expensive" shit is kind of a psyop, it includes in it the assumption that you've got to buy your kids tons of shit.
It is true with food, however. Buying your kids nice food is fucking expensive. I remember when my son went from having a few bites of my steak to needing his own steak, suddenly farmer's market bill doubled. But the rest of having kids is negotiable IMHO. The most expensive part is needing to spend time with them and that's time you can't be working for money. It's such a shitty trade off this world is wild. Thank you for writing.
I keep thinking about this this morning, these thoughts are appreciated
Thanks for this perspective Josh!
to gloss over the inhumanities and to make us forget our own.
"I've been trying to express my change creatively to acquire capital" --Oof. I felt that one. I've been writing for a while about my personal experiences with homelessness and the insights I've gained from that. It often feels weird to capitalize off of this experience. Especially knowing that I am sitting comfortably now and have afforded the luxury of time to intellectualize the experience, and really dig into what that meant for me. Most do not. I feel like there's a problem with integrity for me with this kind of writing...but alas, it's work that needs to be done.
I'm just sharing this because I think I saw a reel you posted once about being so broke in LA on a hike that you might as well have been wild. I related to that a lot, actually, and I find it really helpful and refreshing when people are this candid about their financial burdens. I know that if more people were this open about it, it wouldn't feel as alienating.
There is also an interesting insight here on the common narrative that people are perpetuating about childlessness. It is strange how meeting basic needs has been redefined as luxury and it goes over the heads of most people.
This world needs a top down reinvention. In business they sack the managers if a team is underperforming and costing stockholders money. That's what the world needs.