lead_tag (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lead_tag) wrote,@ 2007-05-21 02:25:00 |
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A few other people have noticed and I would have to agree. Our WWO netizens seem to be getting a bit worn down.
Violence and uncertainty can be wearing. Constantly thinking about ways to overcome obstacles and forward thinking in order to keep them out of your path, isn’t the way we’ve grown used to spending our leisure time. It seems almost too much to ask when you’re already tired from a long day of work.
As they say in the military, it’s gut check time. Only 22 weeks, a mere 5 ½ months and already you’re exhausted? This isn’t a passing thing people, this is the rest of your lives. You’ve chosen this community to see how things play out and how your life will be affected, and now it’s showing you. Life is hard, surviving is harder, much harder than finding the time in a busy day to tap out a post at a keyboard. It requires more ingenuity and greater discipline than your previous life required of you.
I will admit, I am fed and provided for by the only entity that still has ample resources, the government. But still, I post between mortar attacks and missions into Baghdad. I stop writing to take care of normal patients and prepare medical classes. My work life hasn’t stopped because of this, and yes, I sometimes get tired of thinking about it all the time. But this is it, how long do you think the net will stay up? How long will you get to be connected to this community? Hasn’t the world without oil shown you that what you expect, is subject to the unexpected?
The deeper you dig now into your well of personal reserves will show you what you are capable of when things get harder. The fact that you are here shows that you understand the need to think about what can happen, now show yourself that you have what it takes to do something about it.
This is your life in a world without oil, and you don’t have much longer to share it.
