I was finally settled into my living situation, but school not starting for two more weeks left me with plenty of free time in my hands. Idle-free time was something that had been pretty rare in my life for the past couple of years. Last year I worked two jobs and although I had some free time when you try to become an influencer sometimes things you do like gaming, music, and art become stress filled activities no longer about fun and relaxation. Perhaps that’s I felt stuck in a rut.
I was no longer a slave to the human invention of time. Life to a large extent was completely in my control. I woke, ate, and slept when I pleased as humans most of us are denied the right to choose when we do anything. Slaves to our own invention of the ticking clock.
It Would End
The clock would strike midnight when school started, but for now, I had a taste of life design. There were stories online of people like Tim Ferris and the Titans in Tools of the Titans that were truly free to live as they pleased. The people who worked, read, and learned not because they were told they had to, but because they wanted to.
My days usually consisted of exercise, eating, playing games, doing one creative thing, and going for walks with my trusty camera. In the time I made blog posts, constructed songs, watched tutorials, and made edits to photos and videos. There was a lot of hard work involved, but it never felt that way. Somedays I would sit in front of the computer all day only leaving when a project was finished.
There Were A Couple Roadblocks
Preventing me from living this kind of life permanently. The first thing that makes most people afraid too just drop everything and design the kind of life they want to live is money. Without sources of income, it would be impossible to keep a roof over my head and food in my stomach. Possible remedies involve starting a home business, becoming an influencer, selling T-Shirts, Becoming an Author, Affiliate Marketing, Patreon? Selling Music/Paintings. . . still trying to work on this one.
The second thing that was preventing me from dropping everything was the fact that I was in Japan. Getting an extended Visa is pretty difficult here. Because the country is so small they don’t want people flooding here so in order to live here for an extended period of time without a traditional job you have to go through major hoops in loops to keep your status as a foreign resident and keep renewing that Alien Registration Card.
I Still Didn’t Understand Why I Shot Photos
I walked around with the waste of money called the Canon 80D I purchased wondering what the point of it all was. It wasn’t like I was some creative director, director of photography, or gallery holding fine arts photographer. I was just Marco taking pictures of things I thought were interesting. Most of the photos were just blank landscapes with no subjects, my only friends were the principles of design. I did post the photos onto social media, but the volume of likes were low, if likes didn’t lead to follows you couldn’t be an influencer, and on top of that likes don’t pay bills. . . my parents were right photography is a waste of time.
