Surviving Capitalism with Kathy — Part One
Being an adult is hard. Participating in capitalism sucks. Let’s figure it out together.
My name is Kathy, I am T minus 47 days away from graduating college, and that fact makes me want to vomit.
This impending date has forced me to think more and more about what it is like to live life after graduating college. How to participate in society — as a grown up human being. By no means am I saying I’m anywhere near an expert on this topic, I am simply interested in exploring it and sharing out what I have found.
So this is the first of a series of personal stories, lessons, experiences, interviews, and posts about living as a human being. My hope is that I learn a lot through this process and am able to share content with others who can identify with the struggles, because at the end of the day…
No One Really Knows What They’re Doing
This is the first and most important thing I’ve learned in my life and I want to remind everyone (and myself) about it. Whether it is the printer at their job that they use weekly, trying to tell the waiter their order at a new restaurant, or figuring out a new place to live, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT TO DO.
So I raise you this, maybe there isn’t a “correct” way of doing anything. I know my personal method for getting printers to work is hit every button I can find, open and close all the drawers, and ask the printer nicely to “please work”.
It’s 2024, no one is completely okay. When life starts to overwhelm us, we all need to take a step back and remember that nothing is ever that deep. I just learned that Juno Temple doesn’t know how to drive a car. I hate the idea of telling my neighbors to turn down their music. I haven’t read a book since high school. I don’t know what’s going on, and I highly doubt you really know either so can we all just say “whatever” and decide to try our best, accepting that it is enough?
This isn’t a great first post, but I put effort into it and I know it’ll work out eventually. Stick with me for the next weeks as I figure out this blog story thing. Or don’t. Whatever you want.
Keep doing your thing. You are doing as much as you possibly can in every moment, and you can do it!
