I have a friend who moved out East recently. I've been thinking of her a lot lately. I think that's why most of my blog entries have had political content - I'm used to talking to her about all this stuff. No one else I know likes to talk about the state of the world and how we could change things for the better. She is the most liberal person I know (only one other friend of mine can even come close).
We met at work. We were both miserable, forced in to wage slavery at a local institution. The department we worked at was stocked with all sorts of linear thinking or hypocritical goofballs. No one thought like us, except for us - and we were delighted at our mutual serendipity in coming into the department at the same time and working nearby.
Things got bleaker in the department. There was a big layoff situation, and a big shuffle afterward It was handled very poorly by our new administration. Toes got stepped on, feelings were hurt. I was fortunate enough to be able to transfer out to a better place. We'd both gotten an interview there, but she dropped out. I know that if I had to compete with her, I would have lost. She said she had an intuition that it wasn't the job for her. I think then that she was having her first inklings of what she wanted to do. She'd had enough of the work for a living garbage, and would soon decide that she wanted to work to make Earth and society a better place. She even wrote it in her resume. She got a lot of flak when she showed it to one of the people she worked with. He said it was "highly impractical, and you're never get a job with something like that on there." I told her that if she was going to dream, go ahead and make it a big one. Besides, it's not like there aren't Earth-friendly or socially-conscious places like that around.
She only hung around a few months afterward. She decided she was moving out East. She simplified her life, gave away or sold a lot of her things, and packed up what was left. At her goodbye lunch, I signed her card with "Failure is impossible." When you know yourself, and finally do what you know you should, failure truly is impossible. She's on her big adventure. There's a part of me that envies her. Mostly I just miss her.
6:00:09 PM 
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