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wait, now im really interested in the silica gel drama. how did hlrp sex ed lead to eating a gel packet?

This is going to require a novel's length of context.

To begin, I want to underline that this is not meant to be a callout post, and I will not be providing any identifying traits that could be used to single this person out. The most you will get out of that are she/her pronouns, and her age at the time this happened, which was years ago, and I will not specify what year. I genuinely do hope she got the help she needed after this, because LORD knows she needs it and didn't find it at home. This is also not meant to be a character assassination, nor should anybody who reads this post consider it to be a takedown of any sort, and if you try to find this person through me or any of our mutual friends, you will not be met with kind words. The only thing this is meant to be is a wild-ass story of some of the most off the wall experiences I personally had with this person from my specific side of the story, with a few no-username screenshots attached to prove I am not bullshitting you.

With that in mind, let's get started. This is going to be very long, so I'm throwing in a read more

Back when I was in uni, I joined a growing group of Half Life roleplay blogs. The whole idea of our group was that we each chose a character, canon or OC, and we would blog as if the pre-Black Mesa incident moment in the timeline was a workplace comedy a la The Office or Superstore. I played Barney, because I was already working night shift security at this point and thought it would be funny. Plus, it gave me something to do that wasn't staring at CCTV feeds all night tossing a ball against the wall. We played off of each other very well, yes-anding our way through funny little situations and plotlines we put together. At one point we had roleplayed enough that one of the scientist rpers created a discord server for us to talk as the actual people we are instead of through characters.

Great idea at the time. None of us saw the "Pandora's box" label on the tin before we opened it. Would I still join it if I knew what was about to transpire? Yes, because I met my boyfriend and many genuinely lovely friends through it. Would I hesitate for a second first, though, as the events that are about to transpire flashed before my eyes? Oh, abso-fucking-lutely.

We started off as many fandom servers do: chill for the most part, very loud minority of a few assholes who ruined it for the rest of us, but unlike most fandom servers, we actually won and it ended in them getting banned and the server itself surviving to this day. But the other two lunatics are not who you came here for. You want the christian lunatic.

Let's give her a nickname to make this easier. I have the Sylveon build a bear on my PC desk. Let's call her Syl.

Syl was not there for Half Life, she was there for Portal. She LOVED Portal, Half Life was just part of the same universe for her. Portal wasn't just a game for her, it was her entire personality. Which I didn't see much of an issue with at the time, because she said she was 15. Whatever, I thought; she'll learn to control her emotional attachment to things as she gets older. Syl also said that she was christian. I am a flaming atheist who doesn't even believe in the concept of a soul in comparison and I am NOT the biggest fan of christianity as an institution to put it mildly, but I'm not gonna like, be a dick to you for your personal religion if you are not a dick about my beliefs, so I didn't think much of it at the time.

It quickly became apparent that Syl looked up to me more than any of the other adults in the group the more I would talk about my life growing up as a third culture kid and moving out on my own at 19, working 2 jobs and going to a good university. She would ask me a lot about growing up and uni and moving out and yes, sex ed, and it became even more apparent that she didn't get any actual guidance from her parents or pastors or ANYBODY beyond bible studies and homeschooling, so I kinda stumbled into a mentorship role in her life. I wasn't cold, but I was aware of the age and maturity difference between us and established the appropriate boundaries with her and made it very clear that I am an internet friend, not an irl friend or an educator, but if no one else was going to give her information that wasn't actively harmful then fuck, I guess SOMEONE had to do it. I could not in good conscience watch some kid go through life with harmful inaccuracies about the world and basic human biology when I could have done something about it, y'know?

And the more things I taught her about the real world and how things actually work rather than how her republican bible-thumping rural town said they did, the more I realized she was born into a full-blown cult under the guise of a christian congregation. Oh goody, I had my work cut out for me. I will not get into the details of how messed up this group was because it will be a dead giveaway of where she lives and potentially who she is, but let's just say that one time I said that I appreciated the gesture of praying for me during a stressful week I was having but it didn't really do anything for my mental health because I was an atheist, and she sent me a bunch of bible verses begging me to start believing and said "I just don't want you to go to hell because you're so nice :((" EXCUSE ME??? Another time she said that death was only sad for non-christians because their loved ones were in hell and that proper christians deaths were a good thing because they were in heaven now. Hi, that's the most insensitive death cult shit I've ever heard in my goddamn life.

Okay, set up is done. All of these details will tie in like the world's worst reboot of Pulp Fiction, I prommy.

After a good long while learning about the world from me (which like... a uni kid working night shift security is not exactly an academic source but we take what we can get) and exposure to viewpoints outside of her in-group, Syl began that very painful journey of realizing that what the cult taught you was a lie. Except that she just wasn't grasping that unlearning things was an active process. She started to flip to the opposite side very quickly, but kept all the fundamental brainwashing of the cult that raised her. The concepts were all the same, just slapped a different label on them. This created a noticeable pull between two sides of the same personality: the cult personality, and the person beyond the cult who wanted to break free. Mix that with how fucking 15 years old every 15 year old is, and you have a LETHAL concoction just waiting to blow up at the first sign of a spark.

Remember how I said that Portal was her whole personality? Syl decided that she wanted to be a scientist, and go into an ivy league program like I was in (I was in a SOCIAL science, but sure). Problem was, she didn't have the grades or the ambition, really. I had told her that I still got into an ivy league when I failed math in high school, and she seemed to completely miss the part where I said that I also joined every extra-curricular, then worked for 2 gap years for recognized institutions, and wrote an essay about why my math grade is not relevant to my program. I did it with one bad grade, so she was justified in basically just slacking off and then excusing it with "but its haaarrrdd" when we'd tell her she needs to put the fucking work in NOW if that's what she wants to do.

It quickly derailed from here. Not only was she going to be a scientist, she was going to be like Cave Johnson. And she was going to... replace her body with robot parts so she could be like glados. I don't... think she actually knew what science is, because she would just publically fantasize about running unethical experiments on people in the name of "science," and talk about how one day she wants to basically establish aperture labs for real. All of us who were there kind of agree that we don't think she was joking based on what we knew about her and the cadence of her tone. Here's something she said at the time to give you an idea of what direction she was nosediving in:

This was after a session with her therapist where said therapist said that she definitely has some kind of personality disorder, after which she was weirdly proud of having one and treated it like a badge of honour.

Syl then made a separate group chat for all the best friends she made on the server. There was her, me, @false-pyre, and @imtheaura. She titled it "My Family," despite the fact that we were all adults and she was 15 and she only knew us over a discord half life server where one person in it stepped up to somewhat equip her for real life outside of a cult. Regardless though that GC was more the vibe of a group of friends sharing memes and chatting about the day than the wider server was at the time. The others began to also take on a sort of mentorship role towards her as well, because that's kind of inevitable when you get someone talking about teenager problems in a room full of adults who all made the same mistakes before in their own lives. Well, minus the cult.

And remember how I said that she didn't unlearn any of the cult shit? Well, there was a lot of proselytizing. She decided she wasn't christian for a spell, but still wanted us and everyone to know that jesus was the lord and savior and we had to accept him or we'd burn in hell. Usually said after we'd make some joke about satan being daddy or declaring ourselves god instead, because that is just the type of humor the others and i have with each other. She took it so personally whenever one of us would go "oh my god" "you called?" it was fucking annoying. I lost count of the amount of lectures she gave us, all of which I'd shut down and tell her to get a grip about because I have a big stupid mouth.

The others and I also like to talk about evolution, and speculate about where we're going from here. My fucking god, did she not like that. She bit our heads off about how evolution isn't real and god made everyone as we are and there's no scientific evidence or whatever the hell. Like yeah good luck getting into STEM with that mindset. Whenever we pointed out that she was objectively wrong about that, she'd have a big stupid meltdown about how much we're slandering god and how jesus died for us and we're spitting in his face or whatever. He should spit in MY face inste-*GUNSHOT*

Eventually, we were making some actual progress with her. She was still one fry short of a happy meal and going off about how much she wanted to put living subjects in test tubes in between knocking on our doors and reciting Hello from the Book of Mormon musical, but we were getting somewhere. And then she went back to in person school, and her favourite teacher got fired.

The schoolboard did not say why she got fired, but we all had our suspicions that it was because she openly supported queer rights in a cult town. She was coincidentally retired shortly after making a declaration that queer people are still welcome in god's kingdom. This teacher was the first in person adult Syl had for guidance, so that incident shook her to her core, and she fell right back into the extremism. Hook, line, and sinker, even more extreme than before.

She was WEIRD that week, man. Suddenly everything was about how great god was, how amazing jesus was. Suddenly she understood why her cult member parents "just wanted to protect her" from gay characters on disney+ originals. Suddenly no one could say "jesus christ lol" around her or she'd have a fit. I said "I hate cycle counts lmao i wanna kms" because my then-job (I had graduated at this point) made me do inventory management spontaneously and wouldn't let me go home until I had counted every product in the store, and she bit my head off accusing me of turning suicide into a joke.

It was that incident that made us tell her to knock it off already, that we understood it was a hard week for her and she was in a period of grief, but that is no excuse for how she had been acting towards everyone around her that wasnt christian, and that she was actively relapsing. I'll let the exchange speak for itself:

So uh. After years of helping Syl through this she goes and pulls this bullshit. And then has the fucking AUDACITY to act like nothing ever happened in the wider server. I am genuinely gobsmacked by the balls on her to act like it was all sunshine and rainbows in the wider server after sending this and immediately leaving the same GC SHE made and titled "My Family" just because we told her to stop acting like a goddamn Jonestown citizen after all the work we'd put in to get her out of that mentality at this point.

So I dragged her up in front of everyone and essentially said "no, nuh uh, you don't get to say that shit to the people who have lost sleep and asked for nothing in return trying to help you escape a cult over the last 2 years and then act like we're all buddy buddy to everybody else. You don't get to be that arrogant and self-righteous without any consequences. I don't give a fuck how young you are, you DON'T treat the people who have helped you this much like that, you selfish little shit. How dare you treat us like this after all we've done for you over the years."

Unfortunately, no one involved had surviving screenshots of this, but they can back me up on it if they so choose. And oh boy, DID she face the consequences of her own actions. The whole server basically turned their heads and went "what the FUCK is wrong with you, Syl??" and asked her to at least like, apologize. She proceeded to double down with the added audacity of "you guys taught me how to establish healthy boundaries, that's all I'm doing right now :(( oh woe is me :(((" like WOW, okay. Someone's really going for the persecution complex.

Here's her last goodbye to us all before the mass block fest occured:

Oh, boohoo. You're so hard done by. You spat in the faces of everyone who stayed up all night multiple times helping you through crises and spent the last 2 years teaching you about how the world really worked and then they asked you to apologize after you tried to escape accountability. You truly are god's strongest soldier, the most persecuted minority in the world. Let me play you an ode to how righteous and holy you are and how this was the most important hill to sacrifice all your outsider friendships on on the world's smallest violin.

Syl then went on to post on her roleplay blog that she "was banned because I spoke up for what was right, and they didn't like that" before deleting it. Truly no one has suffered as much as you.

Anyway, the day after that went down, I called in from work, bought this book, and read the whole thing purely out of spite:

It was greatly therapeutic. After that incident, I vowed to never sanitize my own atheistic beliefs for the benefit of others again. If they don't like them, they don't have to talk to me. But I am not changing them for other people or keeping them quiet just to spare your feelings anymore, I have as much a right to my beliefs as anyone else does, including the world's most persecuted minority here.

And well, the silica gel incident?

There was one incident, during the height of Syl's "I am the irl cave johnson and only want to get into STEM to conduct unethical experiments on people. follow jesus" era, the rest of us were joking about how silica gel packets are the ultimate forbidden snack, and said "haha would eating it make you see shrimp colours" knowing full well it can kill you.

Syl proceeded to actually eat a silica gel packet and then send in "it has a sandy texture and tastes bad" prompting the rest of us to go "WE WERE FUCKING JOKING FIND YOUR POISON CONTROL HOTLINE RIGHT NOW"

And because i didnt get this done until now, I'll tag everyone who said they wanted to read this or expressed interest: @captainjonnitkessler @formydarlingtoread @cra-zwizard @chasingnightrainbows

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               eilonwy still enjoyed her job at donna’s , no matter how abysmal her skating skills were , even over a year after she originally obtained the position working there . the environment was quite different from the one she was naturally more drawn to , the one at her second place of work , a new chapter , and while that had been scary in the past , she understood that it was very much needed now . with the continuous attacks and bloodshed all throughout town , it was easy for eilonwy to be scared into hiding ; she experienced it the worst in the direct aftermath of her own attack , and while avoiding life and the world outside of her apartment had been beneficial then , it wasn’t the right way to handle her fear now . eilonwy needed to live ; she was fortunate enough to have people in her life to remind her of the fact , and those people - some more than others - continued to fuel her drive to work hard at maintaining control over her life . she wasn’t going to let what happened to her define her or stop her from doing anything , especially not the things that were outside of her comfort zone , the things that helped her to grow . 

one of the aforementioned people that helped her in so many ways was seth . the luck eilonwy felt to have him in her life was outstanding , far more than the woman had ever felt in her life , typically viewing herself as more unlucky than anything . it was seth who filled her thoughts as she walked from donna’s roller disco to the entertainment superstore . she was so excited to see him , and so excited that she would - hopefully - be coming as a pleasant surprise as she had originally been scheduled to work for the next hour and half still , though moments earlier that had changed when the manager let her go early , the establishment being overstaffed for the night and eilonwy’s lack of skills not being sorely missed . she might have been disappointed to be getting less money than planned on her next pay check , but heading in seth’s direction now , disappointment couldn’t be felt anywhere inside of her . 

she hurried into the store . having memorised her boyfriend’s schedule , she knew that he was due to clock off in only a couple of minutes , and she didn’t want to miss him . her eyes scanned the storefront eagerly , and her plan to greet him unexpectedly fell beautifully into place as she caught him with his back turned to her . with a grin , she moved silently towards him . “ guess who ? ” she asked , and while in pre-killer shrike she might have added to her words with a surprising squeeze of his sides to add fright , it wasn’t fright that eilonwy was after , so she refrained . her entrance might have been somewhat lacklustre , but she hoped her company was an appreciated and pleasant surprise nonetheless . 

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(Written by Rhayniel Saldasal Calimpong & Contributed Reports by Bhoy Jubane Pilonggo / Freelance News Writer, Online Media Reporter and Presenter of OneNETnews & News Director of K5 News FM: Dumaguete)

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The Learning and Home showcase was recently endorsed by ABS-CBN Corporation (now known as Kapamilya Channel) as a Grand Champion winner of Tawag ng Tanghalan Kids (Season 2) via the Philippines' long-running noontime show "It's Showtime", because of the opening of Visayas' first Abenson flagship superstore. A new pride of Negrosanon singer from Valencia town as a Dumaguete representative come in to terms with her message to Mr. Kim Aniñon Hewitt: "I think yun ang isa sa pride ng Dumaguete so, talagang noong nag-meet na siya ni Kim. Masaya siguro talaga nag-meet siya kasi, knowing na mag-open sa Abenson Dumaguete dito. Mayroon din kaming mga katutubong talento sa kasalukuyan na alam ko, pride talaga siya mga taga-Dumaguete", Magallanes added.

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Sales supervisor and representative of 'Abenson' (Ms. Magallanes) invited Dumagueteños and Negrosanons to visit a flagship superstore as they can offer a wide selection of top tech brands with amazing deals: "Since open na po ngayon dito sa Dumaguete City, welcome na welcome po lahat ng Dumagueteños, at lahat ng taga-Negros Oriental. Handa kaming pagsilbihan ang lahat, sa lahat po ng mga items namin na ina-offer sa inyo. Marami kaming promosyons ina-offer sa ngayon", Magallanes concluded in our televised interview to OneNETnews.

The Visayas' first flagship appliance superstore, endorsed with Negrosanon singer of 'Tawag ng Tanghalan Kids (Season 2)' Grand Champion winner 'Mr. Kim Aniñon Hewitt' finally opens to serve you today. You can order and come by in-store located at Barangay 4, Real Street corner Silliman Avenue, Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental (in front of Philippine National Bank - Dumaguete branch). You can also reach them through their Viber number (part of Rakuten) at 0949-889-3144 or their regular mobile number via SMS text or call at +63918-948-3389, and lastly, you can order online through the Abenson website.

PHOTO COURTESY: Rhayniel Saldasal Calimpong (Freelance Photojournalist, Veteran News Writer, Online Media Reporter and Presenter of OneNETnews)

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Whether you prefer to visit authorized dealerships, specialized HSV outlets, online platforms, used car superstores, or consider private sellers, you're sure to find a variety of choices that align with your preferences and needs.

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Brown's RV Super Store

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Brown’s RV Superstore in McBee, SC is a Family Owned and Operated Dealership Offering SC New RV and Pre-Owned RV Sales, RV Service, and a Large Selection of RV Parts and Accessories. Located in North Carolina? No Problem! We are happy to serve the NC area as well.

If you are looking to find the right type of sc rv dealer look no further other than Brown's RV Super Store

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30049 Highway 151, McBee, SC, 29101, USA

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‘Imagine a condition that makes you irritable, depressed & self-centred. Now imagine that it’s associated with a 26% increase in the risk of you dying prematurely!!!! Imagine now that in the industrialised world (the west) ? of people are affected by it with 1:12 affected severely. Now imagine that it is real & not imagined!!! This is a real issue & the numbers are increasing, there is no protection from it due to income, education, sex, status or ethnicity, it’s also highly contagious. This condition is not attributable to some peculiarity of your character or to a subset of individuals, they are as a result of the condition affecting ordinary people like you and me. What is this condition called? Loneliness.

Doctors know without a shadow of a doubt that chronic loneliness is associated with elevated risks of illness & early death & increases mortality from cancer & other diseases, it is comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes per day.

A 2015 study found it to be a public health risk at least as great as the burgeoning rates of obesity. It can impair genetic function too. Social isolation inhibits the immune system, promotes inflammation which is the trigger for a slew of conditions such as arthritis, it agitates the stress apparatus & increases the risk of death from heart disease & stroke – that’s because it affects the heart chakra.

If this was the state of things pre-Covid, what are they like now? Covid has cost the well-being of many more people.

Why is it so bad? We’ve lost so many communal spaces such as libraries, we’ve seen huge cuts in services for the elderly & vulnerable. We’ve seen the rise of stress, poverty & the inexorable monopolisation of economic life which all shreds local communities.

Let’s take an example of this in action; a big shopping mall or superstore opens, the developers & politicians are happy, new shoppers are welcomed, they’re happy at having a wide variety of goods at lower prices available to them. Small, locally owned businesses cannot compete so they close. People lose their jobs or have to find lower paid work. The neighbourhood is now stripped of the normal shops; butcher, baker, candlestick maker etc. People no longer walk to the local shops, where they meet & greet each other or the merchants they know, instead they jump in their cars & drive to the superstore or shopping mall, mostly on their own, and normally to a place miles from where they live. Often these days, people order from the comfort of their own home, why bother if you don’t need to?

In the USA the number of people who identify as lonely has doubled from 20% to 40% since the 1980’s. In the UK it’s such an issue we have a Minister of Loneliness.

We spend our lives in competition; jobs, status, possessions, our reputation. We strive to stay ahead & to stay afloat, with our prized relationships being neglected in the process of doing so.

Our fixation with all things material is leading to depression, anxiety & addiction amongst those whose values are led by a consumer society. Capitalism encourages values based on self-interest, a strong desire for financial success, high levels of consumption & interpersonal styles based on competition (sounds very narcissistic too). The more the materialistic concerns are focused on the prosocial values such as empathy, generosity & co-operation decline. When people strongly endorse money, image & status they are less likely to engage in ecologically beneficial  activities, the emptier & more insecure they experience themselves to be. They will have lower-quality interpersonal relationships. In turn, the more insecure they are, so the more they focus on material things. As materialism promises satisfaction but instead yields hollow dissatisfaction, it creates more craving. This addictive spiral is one of the mechanisms by which consumer society preserves itself by exploiting the very insecurities it generates.

Disconnection in all its guises – alienation, loneliness, loss of meaning & dislocation, is becoming our culture’s most plentiful product. No wonder we are more addicted, chronically ill & mentally disordered than ever before, enfeebled as we are by such malnourishment of the mind, body & soul.

Did you know how important it is to be connected? Even taking Covid out of the equation we are not connected enough, your health is dependent on your connectedness. This will be even worse for the younger generation as they don’t even seem to form the relationships like we did before we had technology.

This was taken from the book ‘The Myth of Being Normal’ by Gabor Mate MD

So get off your computers, away from the TV, put down your phone & go make friendships.

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September, 2022

Michele Moore-V

ARE YOU EVOLVING DURING THIS WORKER SHORTAGE?

Have you tried to get a deck built lately? Or have some landscaping done? Have you had a flight cancelled due to lack of a crew to operate the plane? Even if you haven’t, no doubt you know about the deep gaps that have opened in our workforce. Evidence of this fact is a daily reality. Can’t find a contractor. Don’t dare take a flight, who knows if you’ll get back. Have to wait months for that new (fill in the blank) that you ordered. I couldn’t get any Dijon mustard at Superstore recently because, I thought at the time, there was no one to stock the shelves. Actually, it was because there is currently a shortage of mustard. Yep. (Here’s the article if you’re interested? https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/mustard-shortage-cbc-1.6531495). But we’ve all seen dark empty shelves at the grocery store and it’s not all due to brown mustard seed crop failures or supply chain issues.

Oh well. Does any of this really matter? No. Here in Canada, we still enjoy an embarrassing degree of food abundance and overall quality of life. We have become accustomed to having everything we want, when we want, and how we want it. Getting a dose of deprivation lite serves to remind us of all that we enjoy.

There are more serious issues though. We can’t be sure our aged parents are being regularly bathed in their nursing homes. And there’s no guarantee all our kids will have a school bus driver every day this school year, a problem that can cause severe difficulties for parents. And I know several people looking for a family doctor. Or even emergency care sometimes.These things do matter.

I can only guess where the bus drivers have all gone, (on a road trip perhaps?) but we know what’s happened to health care workers. Exhausted and burned out, they can’t save anyone until they save themselves. Also, at least here in Alberta, they’ve been chronically neglected, insulted and inexcusably disrespected by government (and then there were the protesters hanging around hospitals!) Long before the pandemic doctors and nurses were leaving the province because of the dreadful treatment they got from their employer, the Government of Alberta.

But the landscapers, the shelf stockers, the flight crews. Where art thou, vital life partners?

Well, according to a variety of news reports, the Covid shutdowns caused thousands of eureka moments for people unhappy in their pre-Covid jobs. And so, these people decided to listen to their heart. Some launched their own business, some went back to school for training in entirely new fields, some simply found a new and completely different job.

News reporters have found in their interviews that, in the aggregate, these ‘missing workers’ have made the move for a variety of reasons. Gaining more control over their lives, reducing stress, and escaping verbal and emotional abuse, for example. Some of these people say the move has given them more employment flexibility or money. Others report making less money but the trade-off has been higher life satisfaction; they are much happier due to the benefits of self-employment or simply the relief from chronic stress.

I’ve read of a teacher who has gone into car sales. Nurses who are now yoga teachers. A flight attendant who has become a political advocate.(Not sure that one will reduce stress but this person reported that she was passionate about advocating for working people whose economic and psychological well-being is being ignored.)

For so many, this release from a job or career that wasn’t truly satisfying, and subsequent life-affirming discovery of work that was better aligned with their values and needs, was the silver lining of the Covid shutdowns.

This wave of people abandoning old careers and jobs for new horizons helps explain some of the gaps in our workforce, but not all of of them. There is another wave of people who simply stopped working completely. Apparently, plenty of Canadians in the ‘around 60’ age category decided to ‘retire’ a few years earlier than they initially intended.

I am one of those. I stopped working in May of this year. I was completely surprised to discover around Christmas 2021 that I really needed to stop. For years I taught with energy and passion. I was deeply committed to supporting adult learners committed to improving their lives. When the pandemic hit, I, like thousands of others, went through a dizzying course of learning to be able to teach effectively on-line. Learning platforms and software programs. Teams. Zoom. Adobe Connect. Learnspace. Bongo.  And then there was new methodology, and curriculum adaptation and brand new curriculum designed exclusively for online delivery. All this learning was stressful but exhilarating; I have always thrived on steep learning curves. Which is why I was so surprised to discover two years into the pandemic that I was experiencing symptoms of burn-out. Fatigue was the biggest, but also an unsettling drop in motivation. Having experienced full burnout in the past, I knew the next thing would be brain failure. Complete burnout causes our brains to malfunction. In other words, we can’t think straight. It’s an awful experience.

I did not want to get there. And, I did not want to shortchange my students. So, I ‘retired’ early. (I am only using the word ‘retired’ for the purposes of this article. I am adopting my friend John’s word – those of us who have ‘retired’ are actually ‘evolving’.)

Of course I felt immediate relief and am grateful I have been able to enjoy this pressure free summer and autumn. I knew I would appreciate the rest but I feared I would, by now, regret my decision. I was sure I would miss my work. But that, at least so far, has not happened. My mental energy is returning but instead of imagining myself back in the classroom I find myself wrestling with the question of how I can again contribute to the functioning of our society in a way that would not involve that level of responsibility.

I am only asking myself this because employers everywhere are begging for people to come on board. Existing crews in what seems like every area of employment are working hard and often under a great deal of pressure due to the lack of a full team. So I wonder, do I need to find a way to pitch in? Perhaps I could stock shelves a few hours a week? Hmmm, not sure Superstore is looking to hire a grandmother to stock shelves. The very thought of driving a school bus on icy winter roads makes me shiver and shudder, but maybe I could volunteer in a nursing home? No no no, I can’t do that. My breath gets short and I constantly eye the nearest exit whenever I’m in any kind of medically focused environment. Landscaping is out, the season is drawing to a close, and I can forget any kind of construction work. My level of competency with hand tools is comparable to Mr. Bean’s. Plus anything larger than a hammer terrifies me, especially if it’s run by a motor.

The truth is, once the cool weather returns I want only to focus on writing and I do not want any other ‘work’ to distract me. Writing these past few years has been extremely difficult. I want to give all my time and attention to my craft and I hear myself saying, ‘it’s about time’. While I know writers make valuable contributions to society, still, I do ask myself, need I do more?

In case you are wondering, this is not about guilt. One of the wonders of age is the gaining of wisdom which corresponds with the evaporation of that tiresome feeling!

This idea of ‘should I be contributing more’ is coming from my sense of community. But as I write and think about it, I am reminded there are many essential but often invisible ways in which each of us contribute to our ‘hoods, our communities. An essential example is simply being a part of that network that involves parenting, grand-parenting, grand-aunting and grand-uncling and all the other ‘granding’ that creates that village every child needs. We’re also keeping the wheels on the bus when we make dinner AND do the dishes so our spouse/partner can fill some other role that also helps keep things rolling. This is all a form of work that is rarely recognized but there are few of us that have not performed this kind of work. As well, we are all benefitting in some way from the work of the thousands of people who belong to Alberta’s volunteer network, the Gorilla Glue of our society.

And then we have those who cheer up grumpy neighbours or share garden produce. As a beneficiary of both, I want to thank each and every one that does that!

This reflection has been very useful. I have decided to listen to my inner voice, focus on writing and selected invisible and volunteer work. Therefore, I declare myself unfit for the kind of jobs where our employee gaps exist.

Besides, there is a tremendously positive outcome to this ‘worker shortage’. Employers like the cleaning company in this article - https://globalnews.ca/news/8622327/alberta-employees-living-wage/, are embracing the living wage ethos, which has the potential to be one of the greatest changes to our economic model that we have seen in decades. After years of stagnant wages and the funneling of  corporate profits to a thinner and thinner layer of society, employers are being forced toward a fairer sharing of revenues, (which was the norm during the halcyon era post-WW II) thereby recognizing the VALUE of their employees. Higher pay, better incentives, more security and more respect for workers may be the shiniest of all silver linings to be delivered from the Covid pandemic. I took the picture above in Squamish, B.C. in June. Read the fine print. Not only is Save-On Foods offering full-time hours, a decent hourly wage and a signing bonus, they are also offering to fund education. Finding this noticeboard while picking up some bananas was a huge boost to my sense of optimism for the direction we are going post-pandemic, and the choice I have made to ‘evolve’. Thanks for that oh so motivating word John!

Cheers to you and to all things pumpkin spice in the upcoming season of overeating.

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