When A Compromise Is A Betrayal

There is absolutely no shame in showing up to sit at a desk every day, doing what other people tell you to do. It pays the rent. It gives you health insurance. It allows you to plan for a safe and knowable future.

The shame lies in pretending that this course of action is your highest dream, your greatest goal, when in fact, it is a way of deferring precisely these things. It is a terrible betrayal of the self.

Of course, people don't call it a betrayal - they call it a compromise. As if someday, in the ineffable future, the act of betraying your own dreams might actually provide provide the money and time to manifest them.

Your employer is not responsible for your best interests. You are. If you are coasting along in the job, assuming that your boss or company will take care of you in the long run, you are being irresponsible.

You are handing an infant to a stranger.