For years and years, I tried my best to be what everyone else thought I should be.

From parents to friends, I was always getting unsolicited advice about how I could maximize my potential.

It was endless and while I tried to follow the suggestions, I just slipped deeper into misery. After about a dozen years of dragging myself into the zone controlled HVAC of the office where I worked, I had a nervous breakdown. I call it what it is because my body just said no more suffering through a life that I didn’t want. Making a sick amount of money to own a bunch of stuff was simply meaningless to me and yet I put myself through so much stress and pain to keep doing it. That ended when I got sick as did that job inside the zone controlled HVAC. They canned me just as soon as the FMLA protection was up. Yea, that’s real loyalty and compassion shown toward an associate who had worked so hard for the company. But it was also the best thing that could have ever happened to me. I updated the HVAC equipment in my home and sold it. I got rid of all the stuff I had accumulated as well. Then, I bought a ten acre plot in the wood and put a prefabricated cabin on it. That’s where I’m following my passion for writing and living a simple but beautiful life inside my cabin with the quality heating and air from the ductless heat pump. I’ve never been happier and if it took all of that to find what I have now, I can deal with that.

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