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fuckplanb is just a decision, not an affrontext_636278June 1 2011, 09:36:21 UTC
hm... this is difficult. I'm not very good with arguments in discussions. but I'll try to get to my point somehow.
so, to me the whole #fuckplanb thing wasn't offensive. If one follows the hashtag it isn't a parade of rich kids parading around about ditching plan b. some of them, maybe. yes, you're right, most people can't just forget about plan b and blindly do plan a suddenly. but that's not what it seems to be about. For a lot of people it seems to be quite simply _the decision_ to follow plan a. it probably doesn't appeals to people who like you had the courage to always do plan a on the side but speaks more to people like me who had already given up on plan a.
for me personally the time I spent on plan-b isn't wasted. it's just that I got burnt out and depressed and I just wasn't happy. so basically, I only fucked plan b after having tried plan a, earnestly, for 10 years. my back up plan still exists. I can always go back to being a journalist if all else fails. I'd just rather not, really.
Is it a luxury for me to be working on plan a _exclusively_ right now? sure. definitely. I know that. I am lucky enough to have a wife that supports my decision and gets us through it financially. and we have a little bit of money put aside that will keep us going for a while. though I wouldn't say that was lucky because it's only because my dad died last year. so yeah, not really yay me.
but back to the point: I'm not "throwing caution to the wind", in fact my plan a is much more elaborate and plan-like than plan b ever was. I was just biding my time then. I wasn't going anywhere.
I really do see where you're coming from and why this has pissed you off so much. But maybe you could consider that for a lot of other people this is simply about courage. the courage to do what you have been doing already. that fuckplanb can in fact mean nottofuckplana. it's the impulse. the match to light the fire under our ass. what it means to me is simply having had the guts to finally do the things I always wanted.
so, to me the whole #fuckplanb thing wasn't offensive. If one follows the hashtag it isn't a parade of rich kids parading around about ditching plan b. some of them, maybe. yes, you're right, most people can't just forget about plan b and blindly do plan a suddenly. but that's not what it seems to be about. For a lot of people it seems to be quite simply _the decision_ to follow plan a. it probably doesn't appeals to people who like you had the courage to always do plan a on the side but speaks more to people like me who had already given up on plan a.
for me personally the time I spent on plan-b isn't wasted. it's just that I got burnt out and depressed and I just wasn't happy. so basically, I only fucked plan b after having tried plan a, earnestly, for 10 years. my back up plan still exists. I can always go back to being a journalist if all else fails. I'd just rather not, really.
Is it a luxury for me to be working on plan a _exclusively_ right now? sure. definitely. I know that. I am lucky enough to have a wife that supports my decision and gets us through it financially. and we have a little bit of money put aside that will keep us going for a while. though I wouldn't say that was lucky because it's only because my dad died last year. so yeah, not really yay me.
but back to the point: I'm not "throwing caution to the wind", in fact my plan a is much more elaborate and plan-like than plan b ever was. I was just biding my time then. I wasn't going anywhere.
I really do see where you're coming from and why this has pissed you off so much. But maybe you could consider that for a lot of other people this is simply about courage. the courage to do what you have been doing already. that fuckplanb can in fact mean nottofuckplana. it's the impulse. the match to light the fire under our ass. what it means to me is simply having had the guts to finally do the things I always wanted.
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