The Struggle Is What We Crave

The confession I've been working a lot more lately. Way more than I used to. I've had a pretty solid work life balance in the past that I kind of prided myself on. After 7pm was my time. My kid was in bed (or should have been), Slack was shut down, and the client work that was on my mind took a back seat. But something changed, or maybe several things all at the same time kind of. But the first thing to change was my desire to be a part of something bigger than myself. It's a cliche or whatever, but every year that goes by I see my son become more and more enthralled with the world around him. He notices shit, remembers that time I said something off-hand. Point being, I want to make sure that he sees how important it is to be a part of something bigger than himself in a world that's becoming more isolated day after day. There's a million different variations of isolationism that are taking hold in the world today, and the one I'm going to be talking about is probably the least impactf