Why do we call the normal so many of us work toward “The Rat Race” and “getting ahead”? Neither one sounds or is in practice an attractive goal (to me). If getting ahead means being out of debt and having a savings for emergencies, then I’m in. If getting ahead means amassing more treasures that need to be housed, guarded, and dusted, I’m out.
Now I do have a long range vision of living on hundreds of acres, building beautiful cottages all over it, and having our homestead be a haven of creativity and encouragement, fellowship and beauty for all who come by. Here the goal involves a lot of treasures, even material ones, but the point is connection, not collection.
I’m trying to figure out, in this strange society, not how to make a living, but how to make a life.
Where does the term Rat Race come from anyway? Ick!
This is day 13 of 30 blog posts in 30 days. This time around I’m not aiming to write finished pieces, or even complete thoughts. I’m hoping to break a cycle of being too quiet (isolating in busyness) as my family transitions from life in a house to life on the road. So many details are involved in simplifying that I’ve been even less tolerant of how society is (dis)organized.