I recently wrote a post called ‘I’m Broke (And I Don’t Care).’ It got well over 100 comments from readers on it and has been shared far and wide.
I think it resonated with people because they’re tired of feeling like their self worth needs to be tied to the amount of money they make or that their choices to work with people with less money, or to take time off for fun are wrong. And maybe they liked knowing that someone they might have assumed always had money sometimes went broke.
But since writing it, I’ve wanted to write this to talk about the other side of it: sometimes you are tired of being broke.
And that’s okay too.
Sometimes it can be fun to be reckless and a bit irresponsible and go on adventures, buy things we shouldn’t because it adds joy to our lives.
And sometimes there’s the aftermath.
There’s the non profit we wish we could give money to that we can’t.
We aren’t able to pay rent or our bills and we feel mortified about it.
We owe money to dear friends who trusted we’d pay them back soon and we just haven’t been able to.
Our spouse or partner is breathing down our neck and needing us to pull it together.
Dispatches From The Front 