Sometimes it takes a while to figure out what one wants to do in life.
But hopefully its worth the wait.
After many years of introspection that would make many other navel gazers gasp in admiration and horror over such a … pitifully mundane existence….
I have decided that I guess I know what it is that I want to do with the next 30 useful years of my life, prior to the final years where one will want to retire into their golden years.
I say that, despite still being uncertain, but that uncertainty ironically is also the source of my certainty. How to explain…
I’ve always wanted to do a few things with my time on this planet. More than a few really, but there just isn’t enough time for all of it, even if I were to become one of those workaholic types who just keeps going all through the night, sleeping only 3 hours each day.
And then there is my constant wanton desire to just be debauch and hedonist. Sloth and Gluttony are easy temptations to give in to, I have found on many occasion, even now. I sit here, having been rather lazy all this past year, not doing much other than just getting by, and barely that.
Here is what I want to do though, despite it all.
1. Create stories. Maybe not perhaps write, or make games, or create documentaries, but create stories all the same. A picture is worth 1000 words, but silence is golden as they say; so which is worth more? So through all of these mediums and yet others that are none of them; I will create the stories I wish to share to teach the lessons I have learned. For that is #2 of my list of things I want to do.
2. I want to pass on the things I have learned, to those who not for lack of trying, just haven’t been given the same opportunities to learn these lessons as I have. Perhaps my conclusions are wrong, but we cannot discern the truth without at least shining the torch of enlightenment upon the darkness of ignorance. And so, even if my stumble and mistake through life has lead me astray, perhaps that path I have lived shall help teach others how to avoid those mistakes instead; if lessons of wisdom are left in their stead.
’’There is more wisdom in lessons learned from mistakes made, than from never making mistakes at all; for the same truth can be lived by one who is sheltered from living anything at all.” ~ John MacKay
But we cannot just give credit to mistakes where credit is not due. That would just incentivize the inducement of many more mistakes made than need be, when all society need do is listen to those who learned from the mistakes need be made only by those ones who did.
There is a level of trust that comes with that, I suppose, but it is what it is. You can either learn from others mistakes, or you can make them yourself. So long as you learn from them, either or, it really doesn’t matter; but holy shit will be chaos if everyone decides to go with the latter…
So let’s stick with the prior moreso perhaps? hmmmkay?
3. I want to do all of this from the shelter of my own tech enabled cabin that allows me to do everything I need to do on a daily basis without much concern for anything else in the world beyond my doorstep. I know, high hopes with everything going on right now, but with the right support from those who care, like maybe you reading this far, I can make this part happen which makes the other parts possible. And the other parts possibly made possible through it, also can technically be worked upon in the mean time. #3 just makes it easier to focus on all of it, if I am not having to work for the profit of another instead.
Ultimately, let’s face the facts, land taxes paid annually, utilities, food, and vice; cost less than rent today. And if the mortgage isn’t a problem due to buying untouched land and building on it instead, then my total monthly costs afterwards could end up being 1/3rd my current monthly costs. So I would be going from 1300$ a month, to 433$ a month. Roughly speaking.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but that’s more than doable for me. I can basically just wish that amount of money into existence with the way things are right now. How so?
Selling things on Ebay, Newegg, Amazon, and 3rd party Dropshipping.
So long as I can get at least 500 a month in sales, I’m golden. After that point of having it bought and built that is of course.
Having such a low cost of living, while retaining a decent quality of life is what most of my goals have always revolved around, so getting this one thing in the bag essentially bags the dozen other minor things revolving around it.
4. With spare time during everything involving #1,2&3; I want to build my inventions, the many things I have thought up in the past, but could never get around to building due to restraints, restrictions and otherwise rules of society prohibiting it due to things like bylaws.
Inventions like what?
How about a solid state power generation system?
How?
That’s my secret, and none of you will ever know how its built until I can build it to showcase it. I’m never telling otherwise, because it’s my golden ticket.
The only reason we haven’t built this device yet up til now, is because we just didn’t have the reason to build it, and the exact resources/technologies and efficiencies needed to make it work.
But we do now. We’ve had the tech to do this for almost about a decade now.
That’s the only hint I’m ever giving.
5. This is the final thing.
With my land available in the future, I want to create a home for all those who are like me, who need a place where they can put their entire time towards their endeavors, instead of others goals. That means creating a place of sustenance and excess so that the relative few efforts put in to keep it all running, is enough for everyone. So that means things like robotics in greenhouses, and automated drones harvesting produce. Sounds like a lot to establish, but now a days with arduino and raspberry pi type stuff, it’s really actually quite doable now. Just a little pricey to get into.
But it all starts with me getting the first thing going.
Creating stories.
I’ve begun working on a game. A game that while using a simple game engine, will give me the ability to claim intellectual property over said concepts and story within the game. And that will give me the ability to move forward with #2 as well, since many games like the one I am making currently, tend to be philosophers sandboxes…
and that’s what I’ve always wanted to be.
A philosopher.
But those don’t pay much, so I have had to find other work in the mean time for a long time now. Going to university would help that, but I don’t trust those institutions anymore to do what is actually good for me, their student; and paying customer.
Maybe if we went back 60 years, I might have more trust in them, but even then; they had a different bias back then too.
So I opt to avoid them. I do not care for their credentials, or their degrees. Ultimately, as a true philosopher of the reality around us; I care only for the truth as it stands. If I can somehow prove that truth, then their pieces of paper matter not. It is during moments like those, they pass on honorary pieces of paper instead anyways; of which I will denounce and destroy in front of their eyes anyways on the principle of what I just uttered.
Yes, this means that I could very well make mistakes that I would have learned of otherwise through their courses and classes.
But then, they too could just be repeating the agreed upon mistakes of others who thought they were right prior as well.
And so I opt to remain outside their ‘box’.
And so, perhaps making my own box out in the woods, where I can remain outside the box of society; is best.
But god damn does it get lonely being a hermit, even a tech based one. Been there, done that. Would rather bring some friends.
Anyways, what do you want to do with your life? Tell me in the comments below.
I’m gonna get started now.
The game, when ready for any sort of play through at all, will be released on my future website, available to be accessed for 1$ per account. I’m going this method with it, to avoid things like steam, and other companies, while keeping it cheap for all to access via their own profile on the website.
It may be a little … jank… to keep it html5 based, but it will allow for more accessibility via more platforms I hope. In the future, more specific releases for specific devices can be worked on. I’m just going to focus on the important parts first.
Creating a story. One hopefully worthy of your consideration.
John MacKay: June 13, 2023