The LordExecutor
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Welcome! And thank you for taking time to read.
2) Share my story, so that you can avoid mistakes I made.
3) Entertain: As a future writer, I need and want to entertain my audience. None likes to read boring text.
4) Expose myself to critique - Fortunately I am prone to overlooking things, multiple angles help.
2) No BS! - Sometimes it is tempting to let a few things go unnoticed, you know, for sake of making yourself look better. *A mandatory rule I live by.
3) Stop making too many rules, bureaucracy is heavy as it is. KISS principle FTW.
As I reach my dorm apartment I notice that my roommate is still sleeping, oh well, at least I can occupy the shower without a rush. At this point, even the cold water was warm enough. I steadily increase it to hot, and then it hit me.
"Just two more shifts, and weekend will come!"
I couldn't take it, not two, not one, I couldn't take to think about it at all. At this point, one could say that water was coming down my face, after all, I was taking a shower. But I knew better, I felt the salt, it wasn't just water that was coming down my face. I broke down.
It didn't matter how much I tried to justify my work, I couldn't find a reason to continue.
""You need to work, otherwise you wont have money to stay and study here!"
"Dude, your wage is awesome, I wish I earned that much!"
"You earn 125e per shift? Pff, lucky."
I just couldn't, I had to do something, but I didn't know what. I look down at my hands, and I couldn't believe. After only week and a half, I could see open wounds on my hands, disgusting red tissue starred me right in the eyes.
Then it happened, I asked myself. I asked something, that I still ask people.
"How much, is one hour of your life worth?"
If someone would offer to buy a part of your life force, how would you price it? Depending on your current needs or wants? Would you price it accordingly with the riches of the buyer? How do you put a price tag on an hour of your life?
You see, I couldn't answer this. If my wage was too low, I would simply quit without thinking. If it was too high, like really really high ( read billions and billions), I would work for a short while and leave. Start something on my own or who knows what, at that point I would have cash.
But what if the wage is in the middle? You are getting paid well, but its not creating really a surplus of cash. What then? Do you quit, or not?
*(knock)(knock)*
I spent far too much time thinking, I need to leave the shower. I must not forget that my roommate also needs to take care of hygiene.
And so I left, went to my University, all the way battling sleep. When was the last time I slept more than 2-3 hours? A week ago? Something like that, maybe week and a half?
I start running, must keep myself awake.
But no matter my running and thinking, I was confronted with the truth when I met with my peers.
"Is something wrong with you? You look like a zombie!"
Truth is, I was pale as snow, except the bags underneath my eyes.
"No." - That is all I could mutter, not enough energy to explain.
Flashpoint Alpha was here, something had to change. For all systems strive to achieve stability, and I was a volatile chemical. I had to change something...
Regards,
The Lord Executor
Purpose of this Thread?
1) Record my journey, a good way to supplement my paper journal.
2) Share my story, so that you can avoid mistakes I made.
3) Entertain: As a future writer, I need and want to entertain my audience. None likes to read boring text.
4) Expose myself to critique - Fortunately I am prone to overlooking things, multiple angles help.
Self Imposed Rules
1) Write once a week ( Saturday, GMT +2 ) - Point isn't spending unreal amount of time on forums, it can get addictive.
2) No BS! - Sometimes it is tempting to let a few things go unnoticed, you know, for sake of making yourself look better. *A mandatory rule I live by.
3) Stop making too many rules, bureaucracy is heavy as it is. KISS principle FTW.
Lonely Spark - Flashpoint Alpha
- Wind was howling, chilling me to the bone. I had to hurry, classes start in an hour, and I still need to take a shower. As I rush through Horsens, I notice a regularity. Everyone is just waking up, it seems the only guy in the street is me, the only one who is awake this early in the morning. Another blast to the face by the lovely wind stops my thinking, just hurry up.
As I reach my dorm apartment I notice that my roommate is still sleeping, oh well, at least I can occupy the shower without a rush. At this point, even the cold water was warm enough. I steadily increase it to hot, and then it hit me.
"Just two more shifts, and weekend will come!"
I couldn't take it, not two, not one, I couldn't take to think about it at all. At this point, one could say that water was coming down my face, after all, I was taking a shower. But I knew better, I felt the salt, it wasn't just water that was coming down my face. I broke down.
It didn't matter how much I tried to justify my work, I couldn't find a reason to continue.
""You need to work, otherwise you wont have money to stay and study here!"
"Dude, your wage is awesome, I wish I earned that much!"
"You earn 125e per shift? Pff, lucky."
I just couldn't, I had to do something, but I didn't know what. I look down at my hands, and I couldn't believe. After only week and a half, I could see open wounds on my hands, disgusting red tissue starred me right in the eyes.
Then it happened, I asked myself. I asked something, that I still ask people.
"How much, is one hour of your life worth?"
If someone would offer to buy a part of your life force, how would you price it? Depending on your current needs or wants? Would you price it accordingly with the riches of the buyer? How do you put a price tag on an hour of your life?
You see, I couldn't answer this. If my wage was too low, I would simply quit without thinking. If it was too high, like really really high ( read billions and billions), I would work for a short while and leave. Start something on my own or who knows what, at that point I would have cash.
But what if the wage is in the middle? You are getting paid well, but its not creating really a surplus of cash. What then? Do you quit, or not?
*(knock)(knock)*
I spent far too much time thinking, I need to leave the shower. I must not forget that my roommate also needs to take care of hygiene.
And so I left, went to my University, all the way battling sleep. When was the last time I slept more than 2-3 hours? A week ago? Something like that, maybe week and a half?
I start running, must keep myself awake.
But no matter my running and thinking, I was confronted with the truth when I met with my peers.
"Is something wrong with you? You look like a zombie!"
Truth is, I was pale as snow, except the bags underneath my eyes.
"No." - That is all I could mutter, not enough energy to explain.
Flashpoint Alpha was here, something had to change. For all systems strive to achieve stability, and I was a volatile chemical. I had to change something...
Regards,
The Lord Executor
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