In the middle of things, life happens. I have just spent a couple of hours wasting both mine and my husband´s time. With what I name Troublesome Everyday.
We wanted to buy a new cell phone. Beginning with our provider, but ending up buying it without subscription. There are security rules and illogical technological solutions to fight with in today´s Denmark.
It is called Nem-ID/Easy ID. The only thing that damn, pardon my French, system can manage is to make our everyday a little more complicated than necessary.
Long story not told here, it would bore us all to death. The conclusion, however, is that it had been so much easier to buy the cell phone without subscription to begin with.
It is not the provider´s fault. It is a dumb system, used by the banks, and so we all had to be involved in the mess. We get all mail from the authorities by old fashioned mail.
But concerning private companies, you have to go to each of them and also contact the ID-authorities, if you want to be free of it permanently.
From time to time, there are big problems, often with security, but nobody seems to care. And so the outside world sneaked up on us this morning. It is a pestilence, so I try to avoid it as much as possible.
They also demand that you turn up in person if it is necessary to make even the slightest change. It could easily be done over the phone or through email correspondence, but no. And it is so in the Corona-era.
My counselor called and told me that a child of one of his colleagues had Corona. So we agreed on immediately to go back to the phone calls rather than visits right now.
During all this crazy phoning around, checking confirmation emails on the laptop, and wondering why the hell the world always is so truly crazy, I try to be me as well.
With a sadder mood than yesterday, but yet without other signs than unhealthy stress. Stemming from the world outside. I hate it when things get unnecessarily complicated, it is impossible to react to.
Because either way, you end up tired, used, and grumpy. And I don´t need it at all.
So, welcome to a truly crazy world.
I have not yet checked the news. And as far as I`m concerned, it can easily wait a couple of hours more today.
Overwhelming, deeply annoying, and downright stupid. Personally, I would be so ashamed, if I had made something so illogical and stupid as an old system, nobody else would buy.
And it is even worse that somebody actually did just that.
It is way faster to use old fashioned pen and paper than maneuvering the demands from society today.
One thing is outside rules that you have to obey to in some way whatever you feel about that. But it is so different from my lifestyle that it also makes me laugh and to turn up the music once more.
Well, this event took between three to four hours to handle. I want to relax for the remains of the day now.
Enjoy my simple life compared that of the so-called modern society, I live in. I don´t miss being out there at all.
I prefer our alternative way of life, where a word is a word, freedom demands hard work, and serious matters are taken care of before they become an unsolvable issue.
No unnecessary hindrances here, thank you, please. No stupid arguments to worry about. And no slow and detached attitude to problem-solving.
My inner stress level needs peace and quiet, my soul needs freedom from stupid people´s stupid ideas that often happen to affect us all in the end anyway.
So I play loud, thundering drums and howling guitar riffs, I write my opinion, and I get to vent and to rant.
That being written, my mood is okay again. There was a tiny touch of frost in my veins when the phone business took place. I was really annoyed for once.
What annoys me most is that I absolutely hate to be annoyed at all. I don´t have time for such stupidity in my everyday. And it is mentally exhausting to deal with.
Therefore, I turn to music and writing to cool down slowly, to calm my senses, and to get back in tune with my happy little existence here.
And I can feel now that it begins to turn to the better side. Then there is time and space again to try to become the better me.
Spend during all this fortunately also a couple of hours in the yard with fresh coffee in my cup and the little wise, old dog happy in his basket with all four paws straight up in the hot air. Probably 80 Fahrenheit.
So I got a lot of time in the Sun, for they have announced thunderstorms combined with hot temperatures all week. It was important to me to get out in free air today.
With only my husband, the three philosophical cats, and the little, wise, old dog.
I am content now. But I don´t like to see and hear what society has become. So no news before I have to again.
Yes, welcome to a truly crazy world. And good luck keeping yourself sane. I think it is a bit uphill right now.
But I´m okay, I have asked for help, and no issue remains unsolved here. And in a few days I receive my new cell phone at my front door. No need to go out in society unless I have to.
It is a blessing to be able to stay home as much as we do here. And now, I just want to listen to loud music and chill. It began as a tough day with a Troublesome Everyday.
But the Sun still shines, the birds keep on singing, and I feel so much better now. Enough stress for today, thank you.
The news got their 5 minutes. I can´t watch or listen to more of it today. I´m way too happy with my life as it is without the heavy influence from the outside world.
So mote it be.
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