Living the future

 

Strange things have happened since I started my Negritude blog early 2018, which have sort of convinced me that frustration can set in to scupper one’s desire to progress as a blogger and writer-at-large.  A couple of my recent blog pages disappeared without trace using a dubious blogging app that sometimes works and at other times performs vanishing tricks with my writing. But that’s beside the point. 

Since leaving my job at the end of last year to become what my friends term as a Trustafarian, I haven’t been happier in my whole life, living this life and doing what I want to do. Not the least living off my trust fund of redundancy money and having to write to my heart’s content. I have still earned a fair bit of consultancy bucks leading up to May 2018 and even though it isn’t the same or as much as a monthly wage, yet it feels a million times more than that and a million times better. You feel very much in control of what you are doing, who you are and who you want to work with. It’s all about income streams and ensuring that money comes in and you build up more sources of income and that is the most satisfying thing about it. I did promise myself not to look at the online job pages but ended up doing so a number of times but like what happened last year, I got stopped at the final interview huddle on a number of occasions, which by now, did not surprise me as sometimes God has a way of re-directing our paths away from our outmoded ways of thinking and living to newer and better ways. 

Usually the universe knows what’s best for us. God knows as the creator of the universe and the infinite atom of nothingness that what is best for us may be totally different from what we think is best for us, but he will take us there only if we allow him to guide our path. This time around, I felt that I had done enough to be directed in this new direction. previously in 2009 when I experienced this same scenario, I was green and full of fear, but you grow wiser with age and smarter too. You choose your battles wisely and you learn not to expend your energy on useless things, thoughts and ideas.