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Voluntary unemployment_ 01.


Even getting up, washing, and dressing to leave is hard —

could I really take a bike out into the streets?

Buying a car just to haul a trailer — is that even the right way to run this thing?

// Wait — is what I should be worrying about really the viability of the bike? 

// Isn't it the way I'm supposed to live?

// I could fall into a weird corner from a strange angle. I need to be careful. 


Do I want to shout "good morning" at commuters in the middle of their morning meltdown?

If so — am I even saying "good morning" to myself?


Nothing. I don't know. What if this really goes wrong.


If what I ultimately want is a lifestyle,

then the things I think I "need" are, in fact, nothing at all.


I need a survey — where major office workers live, where people at each income level live, the lifestyle patterns by district.


Why does it feel like it won't work in every direction, and yet I still wish it would.


Bella sometimes tells me it's intellectual vanity.


What am I even trying to do?

Everyone on their smartphones, frowning, shoving people aside on purpose, always running in the subway —

psychology, compassion, the essence and nature of being human, delivering a message, the start of a day.


What is there that I can do alone, without borrowing an organization's strength?

Cupping. Collecting LPs and spinning them for people.

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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