Life design

Chapter 60

I had five actual text conversations going at the same time yesterday, and the phone was ringing off the hook at the same time. I arguably “talked” to more people yesterday than I normally do in a whole month! We are trying to buy a house in Pennsylvania and it is scheduled to close in four days, and the details are driving everyone to the phone, to calling and texting me, to cross all the T’s and dot all the I’s before their internal deadlines run out. Not only banking and real estate people, but water, electric, gas, and insurance guys and gals, plus my regular clients - real work.

It was exhausting. I don’t do much texting and talking on the phone by design.  I have reduced the number of people that I have in my world on purpose, so that I can have the highest quality people near me, and affect the largest changes possible, with my limited time remaining on the earth. So not only does this make me much more effective, it also gives me a great deal of peace in my life. This soothes my introverted tendencies. There are few things I like less than the hurry up and wait processes in western life - airports, banking, and real estate settlements, etc etc.

A number of interesting things surfaced yesterday as I was talking to all these people. 1. My insurance company is insuring my personal belongings to the tune of $187,000.00, but I have been living out of a suitcase for the last six months. 2. Every utility tried to sell me extra stuff. 3. Bank people don’t read my emails nearly as carefully as I read theirs. 4. I am glad I have designed this kind if life so that I don’t have to talk to these people every day.