IF IT'S FREE, YOUR LIFE IS FOR SALE

IF IT'S FREE, YOUR LIFE IS FOR SALE

If it's free, you are the product, not the customer. Welcome to the New World. It's all about harvesting your data and part of digital marketing. You are being tracked. Where are you, who are you and what are you doing? You'll be targeted by advertising. You'll be manipulated by political campaigns and the media.

If a vaccine is free and authorized 'for emergency use only' (EUA), you'll have to rely on 'the benefits outweigh the risks'. You are the guinea pig in an experiment. You'll have to listen to the experts and the higher-ups. If a 'rare' adverse event occurs, you're just unlucky. That's the price you'll have to pay for the common good.  Life is all about risks anyway --- you take some and avoid others. Doing nothing at all, may be the biggest risk of all. Should you really trust your own instinct?

But what happens, when you ignore your own gut instinct? You may not be feeling 'good'. You may feel betrayed and deceived by yourself.  'Go with the flow', however, seems so convenient and uncontroversial. You want to work so hard to fit in. Or were you born to stand out from the crowd? You could be a hero or a villain. 

Between September and November, a salmon's instinct is to lay eggs ('spawn') and to swim upstream, against the tide, to the river they were born. They can be pretty sure of finding mates there. The salmon spawn creates new life. Unfortunately, after spawning, most salmon have used up their energy and die. The salmon life cycle then starts all over again. Only dead salmon are going downstream.

In life, you have 3 choices: give up, give in or give it your all (Parker). Life doesn't just happen. There are big and, hopefully positive,  life decisions to be made. Sometimes, you'll have to make tough decisions. You cannot run away from them. 'Selling your soul for free' is one of the toughest decisions you'll ever make. Good luck.

DIEDERIK SCHMULL, December 26th, 2021, Westcliff-On-Sea, ESSEX, U.K.