Gainful Unemployment: One last thought...

What is gainful unemployment?

gainful: profitable, lucrative unemployment: the state of being unemployed, esp. involuntarily or the numbers of people without work According to Dictionary.com, gainful is a word that should be primarly defined in capitalist economic terms. Continuing the trend of defining words with a subjective capitalist lens, the definition of unemployment includes a reference to the involuntary nature of being jobless. But what if the two were put together? What if the unemployment was voluntary? What if the unemployment was not a period of worklessness or worthlessness, but a gainful period? What if the focus of all work, productivity, profit, and gain had nothing to do with an economy of money, and everything to do with a personal economy of soul and internal growth? This is the journey I started on January 19th, 2007. I'm not sure when it will end, but I will write about my experience here until it's over. This explains the "what." This blog will explain the "why" from the beginning, and will show what new "whys" develop as time goes on. Thanks for reading.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

One last thought...

I know this blog is officially "done" but would it really be my blog if I didn't break protocol somehow? I was emailing with a friend about the end of GU and what had happened in my life and we were talking about how nutty it can be where you end up; you really, really never know where life will take you. And he summed up in 6 words what took me 50+ days to trip over to figure out - in 6 words, stated the best way I think you could possibly live life:

Be free, be honest, be you.

Thanks, Ricardo.