Providing for my family is my responsibility. That is not debatable. That is my duty, and it is a duty that I am very comfortable with.
So the question is not 'do I provide' but rather 'how do I provide.'
Either way the end result is the same - my family is warm, dry, clean, fed, and clothed. As I see it - those are the basic necessities for life. On top of that one could add educated, inspired, stimulated and maybe even entertained.
So, as already said, the question is 'how.'
I see that I have 2 options, and neither is exclusive, but rather it's the balance that is important.
I can earn money, goods, time or services by doing work for others. The most conventional of these is money. You do a job for someone. They pay you. You pay your taxes and the remainder is yours to use how you see fit.
The other option is to provide. By that I think I mean collect, forage, make, grow, and find - much like how nature goes out it's day to day business.
The advantage we appear to have over some of nature is that we can communicate and cooperate. This allows us to swap, collaborate, strategise etc etc
So we here along the way though, we have been so conditioned into accepting that there is only one way and that any deviation from that norm is a bit weird. It means you are probably a hippy, freeloader, squatter etc etc
As u said at the beginning if this. I am not interested in shirking responsibilities. Far from it. I want to be responsible and dependable. I just want to do it in a way that I can be proud of.
How one quite does that is the untrodden path that I appear to be on.........and my concern is that if I am on this path then that means there is a high chance I will be leading my family on that path as well.
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