Right around the beginning of Occupy Wall Street I was working a full-time job in the real estate technology field. Sales disappeared, my checks were two weeks late each pay period, I sat in front of a desk alone all day, hated my job, and there was a new anti-corporate theft and greed movement taking place.
So I Occupied my apartment, refused to go to work, forced a layoff and began to write.
I wrote about my once-in-a-lifetime adventure across Mexico before the days of sitting in an office all day watching the clock go by and waiting for the day to end.
Occupy still exists and is like a cure for a cancer that eats away at our society. It brings issues to light and puts people on the ground to voice opposition to forces that wish to go unnoticed. It changed the entire coversation in the U.S. if not the world.
If nothing else Occupy got me thinking. How could I sit there all day alone in a room, toiling away in an industry that intentionally stole trillions of dollars, people's careers, my career, and millions of homes away from the country?
It got me thinking about a better time, a better way to live. I don't chase a career anymore and couldn't be happier. I'll start over if I have to. I'll make things with my hands. I'll write. I'll do something, anything.
This is a great adventure tale and I think you'd enjoy it. It's a cross-country odyssey travelling through Real de Catorce, Oaxaca, Palenque and Huautla de Jimenez, Mexico when all we had to worry about was getting to know ourselves and creating stories to tell.
Diablito is a dangerous and risky journey filled with close calls, spirituality and cultural significance, and my first attempt at writing a self-published piece. Thanks!
"Diablito: On a Mission from Gods"
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