Misses

I have recently tried to implement an individual scheme whereby I would work freelance for a company four days a week. (I shall still try further to see that happen.) Figure I can curb down a bit my consumerism and do just fine – while enjoy leisure. The plan failed because of employer’s lack of understanding.

But this is a ready-made world. It is likewise impossible to book a hotel on the coast in high season under the ludicrous explanation that everyone takes a week or two. Or – try getting an odd fiction title. Or a Bergman film.

What are misfits to do?

The Buddhist answer is to eliminate yearning, which is the cause of all pain. But it is with great sorrow that I cannot try their other method of overcoming temptation: to surrender to it completely.