Me, My skills and I

A few years ago, I made a radical change in my way of thinking. I suddenly realized it had taken my partner 15 years to delete 20 years of education my parents and the system had given me. I am french and under the pretext of being leftish, in favor of a world of solidarity and equality they taught me to play the cards life had given me the best I could. I was allowed sometimes to change the combination of the cards but that was it, never the cards itself.

But what if the cards are not good no matter what the combination is? What if this configuration is just not in harmony with your skills and your need of self-realization? What if you need other cards and you actually even don't know it? And worse, you don't how to get those cards because you have nor the courage nor the knowledge to do so.

Well this is what my partner taught me: you don't like your cards, get others! It is very fashionable to be assertieve, but in reality, the voices of mummies and daddies are hard-wired and sound through walls: be careful don't lose your job... Be careful or you will lose your job... Dont' say that or you will not have the job... Keep your job or you will have no pension!

Well here is the bad news and the good news at once: my generation will not have a pension.
We must try to start our own business, from home, at our ease. We must take care of ourselves, of our lives, of our destiny, we have to try. No more mummies and daddies whispering 'I told you so' every time you have a bad day, or your income is less than expected. All that rebellion and assertiveness was finally worth it but now I need a second step. I need a community. There is no government on earth coming to rescue me. It is up to me, my skills and I.

Sam