Take your contract and shove where I can never see it again. That piece of paper with words typed on it that you think means the world and binds someone to your life for however long you claim worthy.. The one that says I must wear what you want me to wear, work the hours that you want me to work, be available on my personal phone time, take limited vacations, document the intimate details of the sessions that I share with clients... yep that one. That declares that you are above me and I am below you. Stick it.
Because life is fluid. I am not contractable, or controllable for that matter. Ask my family, they will tell. And my boyfriend... he will tell you too.
It is not that I am reckless rebel with out a cause and I just want to fight back (at least not all the time) . I am responsible, ask my clients and ask my friends. I am respectful and confident and aware of my abilities. Aware enough to know when to stick with it and when to cut it free.
Life is fluid, humans are fluid... and the demands to stay one way for a whole year (for example, if I were referencing something specific here) is un-reasonable. It sets you up for disappointment. It is signing your name on a dotted line saying I know you will disappoint me, but at least this way I can blame it on you.
How bizarre that we stressed, dis-eased, overweight, sick, tired, and half freakin dead.... I wonder if it has any correlation with the fact that we have to sign our lives away to the people that we work for demanding that we do exactly as they wish for a specific period time, even though they hired us because of our specific skill set. But now we get to be creative as long as it is within their bounds. It is bull shit.
Humans are not numbers, we are not an equation that can be controlled. We are creatures of connection, community, love (yep, it sounds hippy but show me a person who wants nothing to do with any sort of love), growth, conversation and challenge each other in the process.
Let's not treat one another as numbers and dollars. Because when we are broken sad, and dis-heartened, craving a change, every person that we run across that treats us as though we are a robot simply adds to our dis-ease and sadness. We are here to lift each other up, to support each others expansion rather than limit it with contracts.
So take your contract and rip it up, because it is a false sense of security for all parties. They are breakable. And we are changeable. Our challenges should be to expand and learn new ways to be creative, rather than to contain ourselves within the bounds of others.
Love!
Get out of your head and into your body!
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