The Life You Chose

Originally posted on 6/4/10

Life has some hard moments, and that is a fact known by everybody. Hard times lie there in a potential form, ready to manifest when least expected. Pop! There it is: one has been just laid off. Now, a pause, for we need some seconds to assimilate this.

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Yeah, it's likely we now have to deal with the problem of finding a source of money to finance life expenses. That's just going to be rich. The thing is, that it really doesn't matter what do we do right now, for there will be a way to drive things to a balance at a given moment, and a timely one. So why not enjoy some time doing something useful: thinking. Of course, writing is the best way to think. So, here we go.

The times in which we feel like hit by a rock in the head make us think about everything that had been done in a wrong way. And, certainly we weren't ready to prevent the hit, and probably, for the same reason we consider it a hit, we feel like finding a solution will be, to say the least, difficult. So, we believe that we are to blame, for two reasons:

1) The way we earn our money, the way we spend it and, in general, the way we build relationships and we live our life have led us to the very point in which we are now, the have driven us to a situation considered by us a problem.

2) Lack of planning. A problem is more "problematic" in direct proportion to the size of the efforts that need to be performed in order to solve it. Some problems shall be regarded as unsolvable, and this needs to be discussed in detail.

An unsolvable problem implies that there exists no actions available to solve it. Classifying a problem as unsolvable follows to the acknowledgment of the presence of a problem all the known solutions of which are impracticable.

If instead of facing unsolvable problems, we prefer to face solvable ones, then the resources available are key. Resources take the form of money. This implies spending less (adjusting our lifestyle to do so, and thus saving more money) or creating more sources of income.

While spending less creates some new funds for the future, the potential total amount of these funds is constrained by the size of our income. On the other side, expanding our sources of income allows us to keep our lifestyle untouched, while creating resources to solve future problems and even to fund projects that may interest us.