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The cycle of putting yourself first and last
The conversation
After an evening throwing kicks and punches at each other at our kickboxing sparring session, Boris and I would often head out for a few beers.
Physical and alcoholic blows to the head meant that the next day I didn’t care to remember too much. However one conversation that I can recall was a discussion based on Boris’s belief that eventually, just like most people, I would no longer put my social or environmental beliefs first.
My idealist goals would suddenly turn to personal ones. The society I cared for would shrink, maybe to ten, five or potentially one or two others.
Needless to say, I argued with this. I hadn’t seen anyone make this transition first-hand, and there was no way I would do this.
Trigger
The reality didn’t really hit me until the other day, when a close friend told me about a decision she had made. Ultimately escaping the public sector due to a number of reasons — workload, unreliable colleagues and a certain fatigue- and moving to the private sector, where I assume she’s hoping for less of the stress she had before, a potentially bigger paycheck and the idea of a 9–5 which working socially often doesn’t…
