To follow up on this morning's post, I don't want my intent to seem like I want another total white out of snow like in 2015.
Not entirely, at least. Just a little...
I've been thinking about the 2015 Boston Blizzard. It took a lot out of everyone I knew. My mom in particular suffered more than anyone I know. Her house suffered so much water damage, she had to have all two rooms of her house (and the roof) done over. She couldn't sleep in her own home until nearly a year later. Her house is ready to take on the next disaster, but I don't even want her to deal with anything close to that winter for the rest of her life.
Still, the quiet...
For all the shoveling I had to do, I just remember the days at my work being so peaceful. The exact opposite of what they are now.
Where I work, the concept of snow days does not exist. I've had a string of jobs like that since my twenties. Until April, the last time I ever had a snow day was my first job as a waiter during the April Fool's blizzard of 1997. It was the first time a job has ever called me to not come in. Even during graduate school, any storm weather usually cleared up by nighttime, so I had no excuses.
April 1997. That was it.
Any other time there is a storm in Boston, I'm in the thick of it, getting to work as on time as I can.
Until 2015, when the blizzard first broke.
It was scary to be ordered to stay home for my own safety (for a day), but also nice. Sick, huh?
And while I envied my teacher girlfriend and her daughter for both being able to stay home from school the net day, when I got to work,it was slow enough that I felt like I could breathe and pause to think. Maybe even jot down my thoughts as absolutely nothing was happening.
That doesn't seem to happen very much anymore. Society says to take time off, but anyone who works knows how society makes you pay for choosing to be away for a while. It's almost as if you have to sneak in your real vacation time in between your work days and your so called "time off" which feels less like rest and more like extra work.
To quote Bob Black, free time is just time the company doesn't pay you for.
Unless nature intervenes.
I don't want the weather damage. I don't want the extra hour or more of commute time. I would even be okay if I never had the opportunity to film a snowstorm ever again.
I just want a little quiet time to come my way.
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