Sparrow Swift
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PT Pulp stories of personal sovereignty by
Allan
R. Wallace
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by Allan Wallace
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copyright ©
2011
http://cyberhug.me
"I
just might be wrong. But if you view change as a problem rather than
an opportunity you'll always be too late. Visionaries and crackpots
are always too soon and pay a price for their insight. I'll accept
that."
Allan R. Wallace
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These entertaining bimonthly ePulps are fiction: people, places, times, and events. It's a coincidence they resemble your recurring nightmares and today's fondest daydreams.
Table of Contents
• Chapter 5: The Realities Of Paradise
A Sargent of mine from days-gone-by shared this book with me. He encouraged me to share it with other's as long as it was changed enough to protect his new home. Our compatriots will know who he is. Of course the following is fictional; persons, places, times, & events.
People have many reasons to leave a solidly comfortable life behind and pursue something different. One of the main reasons is that their solidly comfortable life has become less comfortable. It is seemingly one of the characteristics of people in modern society that as they age life becomes more complicated.
There are many ways of coping; you can get and stay angry about thing you can't change, you can develop a habit that consumes you, and you can develop shallow relationships or emotional ties to celebrities. There are other options, all more or less involving becoming personally dysfunctional.
What many including myself have found is that the best escape route from average is to leave and explore. We changed our focus toward escaping-to instead of escaping-from. There is a comfortable world out there that does not run on a clock's second hand. I call it the world of mananas. In my world manana is not a literal translation from Spanish meaning tomorrow or morning, it means not-today everywhere in my world. For both A type and B type personalities it takes some adjustment. But becoming an M type personality carries real rewards.
To be honest I'd always been a D type personality. They found out about D type by studying wolves. Most wolf packs have an A type dominate wolf and all other males settle for B type. Occasionally another type shows up, not wanting the constant fighting and responsibility of a pack, and not willing to fight for a position relative to all other local wolves. Instead the type D grabs a pretty mate and the two of them head off on their own. Color me a former type D, now a type M. By choice I'm a lover, not a fighter.
If you're a type A you've already thought about offshore, and may have made some preparations. If you are type B in a bureaucracy you are like a sled dog bred from wolves. You are chained behind the lead dog; your view is unattractive and your footing treacherous. Your choices are limited -- get used to it or leave.