Rockets, A quick calculation

After my quick two day work week winds up today I will be packing for a long weekend road trip to Cocoa Beach. Not only is that spot close to the Kennedy Space Center, the beach itself is very much a throwback to what a beach town used to be. I have been there a few times and always enjoyed myself. I expect the same this time around. I will be taking the Tesla and utilizing the month long FSD subscription I activated a couple weeks ago. It makes extended driving sessions so much less of a hassle IMO.

It really is pretty crazy how much I have streamlined my life in the last 3-4 years. Most of it was initiated with my decision to sell and move out of the house that Alison and I built in 2001. That process more or less forced me to examine what I had and what I actually needed. It was something that was long overdue. Save it for a rainy day mentality and former relationships I was in created a stupid amount of things that I didn’t need in the big picture. I developed an ability to do a very fast mental calculation of something’s worth to me. If it failed that formula out it went to either Goodwill, the front curb or just thrown straight in the trash.

That calculation of worth has expanded over time to not only include things but also include situations, people, relationships, and activities I spend my time on. Friends of mine are often very surprised how streamlined my existence now is with the outsourcing of certain home maintenance activities that give me the freedom to do pretty much what I want. It’s a far cry from when my life was mired in chores and tasks that consumed so much of my energy and time.

I have tried to distance myself from people that take far more than they bring to my life. I have had a long pattern of getting entangled with such individuals and am happy to say for the first time in a long time I am free and clear of that scenario. I have run that calculation on many other things that I used to spend a lot of energy on, things that in the big picture I have zero control over. I simply stopped giving a F about a lot of things is the simple way to summarize it. I’ll take care of my circle, you take care of yours.