Inertia affects more than just physical objects. The last three years of my life pretty much prove Newton's first law applies to more ephemeral aspects of existence like career and personality. I seem to be exhibiting resistance to change. Work is poisonous, not in the sense it is killing me to do it, but in the sense that I can feel it limiting my ability to grow beyond where I am. Life has become a comfortable rut, success is more or less guaranteed if I simply stay the current course and wait for 15 more years to lock in an early retirement.
I spent my whole life making the safe choices and the one real benefit to it that I can see is that it now frees me up to make what might end up being a stupid choice, without being destroyed financially. My work performance is suffering, I just can't motivate myself to do it because I need longer believe in it. That's probably my subtle way of forcing someone else to make the choice for me to move on, it's difficult for me to consciously throw away 4 weeks of vacation a year and a basically very easy existence.
I spent my whole life making the safe choices and the one real benefit to it that I can see is that it now frees me up to make what might end up being a stupid choice, without being destroyed financially. My work performance is suffering, I just can't motivate myself to do it because I need longer believe in it. That's probably my subtle way of forcing someone else to make the choice for me to move on, it's difficult for me to consciously throw away 4 weeks of vacation a year and a basically very easy existence.
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