“I wake up with nothing to do and go to bed with only half of it done.” *
Many of the regulars at our coffee shop, especially the morning crowd, don’t have jobs. We have the luxury of trying new things, and enjoy the comfort of doing them as amateurs — just for the pleasure of it. If we’re not good at it, that’s fine. If it’s more work than we thought, we can blow it off. The only things that limit us are our imaginations and our knees.
We are putterers mostly. Talking in terms of our passion or a personal journey or a rendezvous with destiny is way too Starbucks for us. There isn’t an auteur in the crowd and none of us are trending. However there is a guy who has some kind paradigm named after him.
People who work full-time, busy raising children etc., fantasize about a future when they can do whatever they want. But it’s not that simple. Free time is like virtue and mayonnaise; too much of it is worse than none at all.
On good days you find yourself caught up in something so rewarding you have to force yourself to go bed. That’s important when you’re expected at the coffee shop bright and early the next morning.
*Nobody remembers who said this first.
