What Would I Do Delighted for 50c and a Sandwich?

4/365 How to Deal with the Life Script

“Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich, and be glad of it”
- Muddy Waters

Sometimes Be Kind is the only instruction we need

Not everyone has has the pleasure of really doing work they love for a low wage and found themselves still very happy and fulfilled even in 15 hours days. Most people work 8 hours at a job they cannot stand, get home and are in misery. Never hold this against people, they played to the life script and no one can blame them, it does sound fantastically reassuring and the safe way to go about life.

Welcome to your life instructions:

Life comes without a How-To book so we created our own

Be born
Grow up (no matter the circumstances become a functioning member of your local school)
Go to College
Get a degree
Get married
Have a kids
Work
Work your way up the “corporate ladder” (it’s more a grease covered slide with a kid up top kicking others down while he tells others about the ACTUAL ladder behind him if you ask me)
Have grand kids
Work till you retire
Retire
Spend your money on your retirement
Die

It’s up to us to come up with how we will create our own happiness

This journey can actually lead through happiness or lead to a life of contempt

This is the life script. Study it closely, it is the few instructions that we come come to once we are taught how to speak and most people, safely, assume that this will be the route of our lives from the day we are born. For some this journey can actually lead through happiness or lead to a life of contempt and comfort. Specially in world changing times such as the one we live in right now, the life script has been set on hold. This has brought so much fear upon people and it is manifesting in many different ways for everyone yet we all feel like we are alone in our experiences. Whenever there have been moments of discomfort, pain, sadness or extreme happiness, physically something happens along side it.

Self-Awareness and Self-Love are the two roads less taken and now we’re forced on them

When self awareness takes place, communication can flow better.

Personally, a stress nap takes place after a big promotion, a big ticket purchase, or a massively bad news comes to light. It took me years to realize that due to my Bi-polar disorder whenever big things happen in life, a 2 hour nap is going to happen and nothing more can be expected from my aching body until the energy comes back. Now that this kind of awareness takes place, communication can flow better reassuring those around me that nothing is inherently wrong with the event, there are just many ways of dealing with life altering changes in life.

Just because you’re alone now, doesn’t mean you will be alone forever but you must take the first step

I have never stopped searching, never stopped looking for what else is available in the world

Fortunately, the life script isn’t the sole life that you need to live. This isn’t your only choice. The real choice is finding out what makes your life happy, what makes your healthy and what kind of person do you want to be in the world. I have had the great experience of meeting and becoming multiple different people in my life. From homelessness and alcoholism in Toronto, Canada, to low-key pescatarian health personal chef, trained by a master baker and business owner in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Christmas Party invitee at the Presidential Mansion Miraflores in Venezuela. My life has been a full one but only because I have never stopped searching, never stopped looking for what else is available in the world, what it has to offer. I may never have been happy with what is or was present in my life. From marriage to FWB I have had them all and I regret none of them.

Staying alert and aware of surroundings, knowing and figuring out the red flags in life has been my true savior. Knowing what friends to keep and what friends to exclude from what aspects of my life. At this moment I have a great friend and a good boyfriend. I am starting a life in work that is enjoyable and I wish I could go back to a established kitchen and work through the challenges once again but alas, we have to change as the world has changed for us and there is nothing that can be done otherwise we crash under the mere weight of our own existence.

Thanks for reading, let me know what your views are!

My name is Maria G. Martinez, I am a certified SEO and freelance writer and chef working on making her passion and her hobbies work for her. If you would like to read more please hit that clap button and subscribe, I would LOVE to hear from you!