Taking Your Time

“I don’t care how many over priced coffees I can buy in the future. I only need one per day that I make at home, but what I need right now is the most expensive latte you can find me and to not bother me about your plan of how my life should go to bend to you and your group’s whim. If that ‘costs me money’ so be it. I don’t care about buying things that are worthless or temporary only for status. I just want to enjoy my youth and I do enough work as you have already expressed by the fact that what I do directly interferes with your selfish business model. So if I do enough work then that means I can live reasonably well without the bells and whistles for things that just don’t matter.” Audrey stared at Harriet’s fourth fad water bottle this year. “You leave my Wablex alone! Ahh yes Audrey is so special because human connection of a shared experience of having the same cool water bottle doesn’t make you warm and fuzzy. Your heart is like the cave floor you study,” Harriet huffed. “It’s not that…I value human connection, by talking to people. This water bottle ends up in a landfill and knocking out the dolphins on your shirt if they dump it in the ocean which is now seemingly okay. How long does that feeling last for you? Twenty seconds? Maybe thirty? How about you actually care about the life goal your friends have rather than pretending that you’re present until they actually have something they need help with. Your group does nothing with all the ‘work’ you do. It’s all just bureaucratic nonsense. I bet you couldn’t even spell the big words you type on your phone without the suggested text.” Harriet started looking back on the words and she turned red. She could barely keep her ely vs. ly correct.