i was talking to "friend #2" (peter) on the phone when he rang me today to "find out what is going on" with my life (i do not know why he is interested except for the fact that he is entertained by my replies that take many minutes to complete), and he is one of the very few people who likes to hear me talk without interjecting his own mindset.
he erupts into laughter on many occasions as he listens to me talk, because he thinks he sees a similarity between me and "medieval lords" who rode around on their horses and demanded taxes and did very little work to live a life of luxury.
he is wrong of course, but about 18 months ago, i thought i was going to lose my computer job, and i pannicked to a mild degree , and i bought a business that delivers frozen chips to "fish and chip" shops.
i purchase the stock and resell it at a profit, and the average profit for one day is about $600.
i actually performed the task of delivering the chips myself for the 1st year (with my truck and my trolley). i hated waking up so early.
for 3 days per week, i had to wake up at 4:30am, which also meant that i could have no fun the night before.
my "friend" #3 (mark) has been a student of various doctrines at universities for much of his life. he is quite smart but he is a dreamer. he is also much older than me (he is almost 50), and he considers himself more intelligent than me in every respect, and he never listens to what i say. he has no dollars in his pocket even after all this time.
peter knows me, and and he know mark, and he does not like mark, and he is excited to see me use mark as my truck driver who does my physical labor.
i pay "mark" (his name is mark even though mine is also mark) $160 per day (which is "the going rate"), and if he quibbles, he will be no longer required. he thinks he is vastly better than me, but he seems strangely stupid to me.
i have known him since i was 14 (mark that is), and he always said "heh!...time will tell" when i challenged him.
well time did tell.
now he is breaking his back working for me while i lie asleep thinking of naught.
it does not make me happy, but it helps me realize that even without thinking, i wind up in control of what happens in my life due to some inevitable autonomic and subconscious process.
there is not a huge amount of things in my life to worry about because i realize that they all do not matter.
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