When temporarily jobless, we can bust a move on other fronts, making waves that enrich lives. Throw in a little impulsivity, which is typically a weakness, and some surprising growth opportunities may arise. That’s because everything has a silver lining: weakness and strength, good and bad, although strengths and goodness trump all. For instance, every existing soul possesses beautiful traits, no matter how vile the world perceives a person.
Today, I bought a swim app, which is problematic because I must locate work immediately to afford it. I’m still determining if I qualify for EI, so I may not have the money for the swim app, although I bought it anyway. On the bright side—and there is always a bright side to every situation (seeing the positives relates to adaptability)—the purchase takes me steps closer to getting a gold medal in the Olympics for my age. When we set a goal, what qualifies as a right or wrong move becomes less subjective; instead, the “goal” determines the grading rubric, although having food is a big goal, too, admittedly.
And then, another app unexpectedly popped up on my phone. It’s a book summary app, and I think these popups that occur without our deliberation may be signs from God. Or they may be diversions. However, now I’m compelled to buy the 18-dollar-a-month book summaries, which means I will have 18 dollars less in food. That amounts to one week’s supply of yogurt. Naturally, a book in the book app showed up I had wanted earlier that day: The Power of the Subconscious Mind. I wondered if the app had some mind-reading or subconscious-listening power. So, the popup lured me. And today, a day later, I purchased a year’s access to the app and have been reading book summaries on leadership, teamwork, and business, and they are mind-blowingly fabulous. Despite this impulsivity, there is a silver lining to everything we do. Sometimes, the bad has more silver than we realize, and the perceived good does more harm, such as the harm caused to innocent Canadian Jewish students due to some Palestinian protests.
I went to the movies for the last ten nights to see the cinematic movie trailer we made for the preshow. However, I stayed in the concession area for almost all the movie visits and read my project management textbook while my loved one watched the show in the theater. I did this because I get more utility from reading a textbook than watching a show. I also work on my documentary in the theater concession area while my companion watches the movie. I love the focused time. When we carve out time for fun stuff related to our ambitions, we take great strides toward the promised land.
As for the documentary film, I need about $1000 to interview a fellow in Europe, so that’s taking second stage until I get a great career, ideally with six-figure pay. So, I focused instead on the interview with my friend who had four near-death experiences. She only has a cell phone, though, and I am presently unable to buy costly software to record her, so I was stumped. (Buying the software means about $40 less food every month. That’s a two-week supply of Greek yogurt.) But then I saw a documentary film trailer. It had lots of compelling visuals, so I decided to gather visuals for my documentary: stock videos using my Canva paid plan that comes with a commercial license. Then I filter these videos so they are primarily black coloring, and then I add a beige-brown tint to generate uniformity and collect the videos in Canva according to themes. For instance, I’m compiling shots of beautiful blonde-haired women to represent my friend who had near-death experiences. She has gorgeous blonde hair and a stunning face, so I want to present her as a supermodel. She’d appreciate that. The lesson here is that when we get stuck, take a step forward in any direction, as progress, however tiny, gets us unstuck.
I’ve had some spare time for spirituality, so I created an excerpt for The Marriage Foundation on a Wikipedia page that receives 100 visitors daily globally (looking that stat up on Google Trends.) And my excerpt was accepted. I will soon insert two new engineering methodologies from two experts from my former company into Wikipedia. My company was tiny but had genius propelling it, and we all parted on very positive terms.
Next, I will use Wikipedia to insert the controversial view that AI may have consciousness and discuss the present limitations of scientific materialism in explaining consciousness. I will also insert on Wikipedia how the philosophy of creating ethical machines supports my idea of programming AI with the goal of unconditional love for everyone. And then, perhaps even more exciting, I can insert into Wikipedia my original ideas on motion parallax that may advance the world to a new scientific discipline of study not sufficiently tapped into today. The excerpt on motion parallax may be tricky, as it may get rejected due to a lack of research backing the views, as they are not grounded in research but observation. However, if we take Communications courses and couple that with writing for The Voice Magazine, I tell you, it gives us an edge on forums.
So, despite unemployment, life is terrific. Life sweetens with fun when we have goals and a desire to please. There is no end to the service we can offer or the ideas and hobbies we can explore. And if we don’t have hobbies, we can take free online tests to determine our personality types and then search Google for hobbies that inspire us. We are unstoppable during crises, distress, unemployment, or even euphoria. After all, we are here to thrive beyond everyone’s wildest dreams!
