Finding Clarity · The New Skool

Kerry Morrison

23d ago in 🏠 General discussion

Finding Clarity

A more personal note.

Yesterday was my mom’s birthday yesterday.

She’s no longer with us, so it’s a day where I just mostly stay offline and take time to reflect.

It’s certainly not a day I want to use for content.

But I couldn’t help but think of the night when I got the call telling me she was in the hospital in a bad way.

She and my father were in Canada, and I was living in London.

It was 8 or 9pm and I was in the office.

By midnight, I was on a plane.

Didn’t ask permission. Didn’t check with anyone.

I left.

Now, to their credit, the company I was working for and my boss at the time were very understanding of my having to go.

Supportive of my leaving.

But as the days dragged on, that support got less and less. To the point where they started asking me for work. To attend meetings and participate in office things.

They weren’t shitty about it. They didn’t demand me back. But I was a cog, required on things, so they did what they had to do for the organization. They asked me to do my job.

Even though it still came some months later.

This was my breaking point.

Being told, sorry, being asked to focus on work instead of my mom, was the final straw, breaking the final back ( in a long line of shitty job things - I’ll tell you, guys, one day about being thrown out on the sidewalk by security, like in a movie ).

As I sat thinking about all this yesterday, it finally dawned on me, in total clarity, why I wanted to do this Skool thing. And why is it so important to me that I do?

Freedom.

Not wealth. Not fancy cars or big houses. Not luxurious vacations or bling.

It’s freedom.

Freedom to go where I please, when I please.

To live a life where god forbid someone I care for is sick, I can drop everything and go to them for as long as is needed.

Freedom.

And not always even for major things. I go to the gym every day between 10am and 11am. And no one can tell me I can’t. Or that I should be somewhere else or doing something else.

Anyway, I didn’t want to share something dark, but because it came to mind, and I really think this is relevant, here we are.

If you read this. Thank you.

You’ll see more of this clarity in everything else here from now on.

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