The Woman Who Walks Alone

Thank you Albert, for giving me the words to articulate my resistance towards doing what society tells us all to do… Go to university, get a stable job, get married, buy a house, have kids and live happily ever after.  As lovely as that all is I can’t help but feel that there is so much more to life, and I am feeling totally liberated right now because I have a wealth of opportunity to look forward to.

I’ve never really fitted into the ‘crowd’, in truth I don’t recall ever wanting to. I’d say that has a lot to do with the types of crowds that were within my reach, so because of that walking alone has never been a problem for me.  Those are my solitary footprints in the sand; I love the beach, the waves crashing at your feet while your breath is taken away by the never ending tranquillity of the ocean in the distance. It is a wonderful place to be alone and collect your thoughts.

So here I am, a self-confessed wannabe soaring bird.  Trouble is I’ve been a little rubbish with direction in my time, so I have gotten lost on my way, epically lost at times.  The great thing about getting lost is that we learn a far more valuable lesson through hardship than we ever could through any other means.  I’ve learnt a lot about myself, other people, life, friendship, family, love, money, work, peace, happiness, sadness, grief, loss, depression, addiction (not the illegal sort), responsibility, security, confidence, success, ambition, drive and the definition of true freedom.

I’ve always considered myself to be fully independent, and in many ways I am.  I own my own home, I work a good job, I have a nice car, I have the freedom to go where I want, when I want, and I answer to nobody.  So why do I no longer consider that to be true freedom?  Here’s why:

1. I am a slave to my mortgage lender
2. I am dependent on an employer to pay me a salary

Those are two very standard things for most people, but as we have already established, I’m not happy being ‘most people’.

Through much reading, education and varied research I have finally found something that has the potential to break me of my last two dependencies.  Contrary to popular belief I don’t need to carry on working my way up the employed career ladder hoping for a substantial pay rise, what I need to do is start generating what is known as passive income.

For those of you who don’t know what passive income is, here’s good old Wikipedia doing what it does best

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_income

The Kypps (that’s me by the way) needs to Be-Free, and it’s about time I created my own crowd, so keep an eye on my blog to find out how you can Be-Free with Kypps and FLP.