what if it’s all volunteering?

“At every moment, we are volunteers.” -Stephen Colbert

No matter how much agency you’ve exercised to arrive in your current situation, no matter how much you’ve made your own dang bed, you can feel trapped. Your story of your situation can have the very real feeling and very treacherous vocabulary of duty, obligation, fate.

You may, in fact, be trapped. Your hand may be forced. I may be recommending to you, just a carriage break from now, a fiction. 

Let’s run that script. 

What you are doing is offering. Your work is a contribution. A gift, in fact. You have more than you need and you are sharing it. 

You’re opting in to all of this. You’re choosing it. You’re volunteering.

-Eric