Frontiers in the Occurrent
Having 'Opting, Initiating, and Availing' leverage abilities in the moment, reasonably rich in later and soon new paths in 'the occurrent' (presently), not previously set too firmly.
In hourly living life, we all have near, medium, and far future potentials and some scientific natural latitude, felt to us, and beneficial to us, in the ongoing moment of the occurrent or the occurring, which matches the concepts of ‘while presently’ and during moment-to-moment change.
These potentials and this latitude are made of what is partially open and available to us, ahead of us in time-durations short and very lengthy.
For purposes of discussion, I describe these potentials and this personal latitude as “frontiers.” This essay is essentially an attempt to explain how time between present and future affects personal liberty, in the present.
The quality of these frontiers matters in the projected existence of them being robust ahead of time, as real and viable in the face of forecast realities that possess in our futures: good to less than good, in full range and gamut not too pre-planned by other persons, as to consequences in the future.
The quality of these frontiers greatly affects the current liberty and morale, for any person, in a cascading redoubling effect, and so does also effect self-contributions to further hourly and momentarily efforts. So, this future frontier liberty matters and should be respected by those persons in planning positions regarding other persons to whom various organizations have tasked planners to set some matters in place, at timeframes preceding whatever future manifestation of actual later happenings might happen, in later reality.
It is part of all of ours’ qualities of living, for all persons, to sense and relate to legitimate options embedded in free-enough near-term, medium-term, and long-term futures ahead, in our lives. The presence of the potential for mere change, or obvious improvement, or basic personal development and continual proceeding in a changing manner — to future windows of time — is standard for all of us, as always has been. Yet it is not often analyzed for search of salient features.
Also, personal latitudes moment-to-moment, and thus lack of too many or too firm of any clamping of constraints — cast far ahead in doomed and predetermined inflexible futures — are valuable to each of us in the very now, or in the ongoing moment.
We can feel the effects on us, of changes in far-frontier potentials available to us, and any overly clamping constraints against us can squelch much in possibility realms for occurrences in the interim, or development ahead of us. Such can become very tangibly and physically constricting, and maybe even morale and wellness crushing, for any person’s real liberty, and for the latitude of his or her own real changing in the moment, possession of human willpower self-application.
This sense for the welfare of frontiers can be felt in the mind/brain of each person, upon changes in frontier outlooks, without having to even conceive of, or consider, good or bad, or other unknown of interim, consequences at any great length. We humans quickly feel frontier changes, ambiently within us when obviously curtailed via long term pre-commitments of action by others planning for us, and we need not even analyze it much, especially when it is not much analyzable in the remaining options availing, if and when our frontiers are in preset molding.
Options and leverage avail ahead of us in time, and new opportunities that could feasibly develop, fare much better if they each remain significantly unestablished (as of now). Too much predetermination and establishment of future happenings and situations, does greatly hinder a person by significantly erasing the possibility for something dear to us all: the potential for appealing and/or refreshing changes possible, to one’s life ahead. And interestingly, potential for any change — good or bad — is more appealing than what might seem better situations for health and amenities to other parties’ assessments, if those seemingly better situations for health and amenities are forced upon a person, predetermining and partially dooming his or her future.
Whether aspirations and ambitions, regular pursuits or activities, or unconsidered options and leverage, do come to meet acceptable status — is not the issue yet — while living in the moment, with these frontiers being important in potential, and with viable latitude un-pre-set, currently.
Valuable primarily in the moment, this frontier liberty is not at all sensitive to fast-forwarding to pre-plotted out results. Fast-forwarding to pre-plotted out ‘well fed and of place to sleep’ is often done in assessments made by others, rather than if decided upon by the person at issue, whose future is truly at stake, in the occurring occurrent, during which readers read these words.
Regardless of whether forecast possible changes come into fruition, or do not come into fruition — in the not-yet-existent future — the potential in the ongoing now — for this future changeability — does exist as of real standard leverage abilities to us. This is ‘adult standard’ for most persons after high school graduation in the United States, and thus is standard for most persons employed, even those persons employed in charitable efforts to plot out courses of futures for unemployed or under-employed persons, often rendered under-employed by the same.
Efforts by other persons, of adult employment cast into pre-plot futures for other persons, to provide stability as primary, do risk detrimental clamping constraints away from future occurrences unexpected, or unforeseen, within the then unreasonable strictures of our present informal and self-initiated financial and other explicit and implicit contracts in life. Reasonable strictures covers: lease and mortgage contracts; social marriage and parental formal and implied contracts; employment contracts; health contracts; and retirement contracts; plus any justice penalizations.
Option and new leverage frontiers, as I sometimes term these factors, range greatly in terms of the magnitude of what a person might look forward to, wonderingly and avidly, and in that time range spectrum ahead.
In contrast to some reflex criticism that often arises when discussing liberties, frontiers, and options, these option frontiers I am discussing are actually fairly unambitious and basic, and are thus not about grand concoctions, or over-ambition.
Plenty of un-forecast and unknown junctures ahead on a particular day, or for the week ahead included, and maybe an event or two about a month in the future, are the lifeblood of this, much more so than ideas for years out plotted out for safety and security.
However, even with no idea or guess as to a person’s status and livelihood several years ahead in the future, it does stand as very important that the unknown and unknowable about that time frame not be too tightly predetermined and thus not be squelched, by present long-term contracts to remain too long in an abode, or to be an employee at a company without viable future latitude practically, and so forth. We all live better if we have open enough frontiers. A typical and difficult to notice bind of this sort can happen when a blend of employment realities to agreed and fair contract blend with dependency upon elders who exact their own implied contractual expectations. This happens to some persons of retardation or other such status.
Most important, the frontiers that potentials and latitudes of unknowns ahead can give us benefit most from being full of unknown of in detail yet, surely, robust crossover ties — with related or intuitively connected further options and frontiers. These secondary links to potential can strongly, though vaguely, tie into any main potential’s options, plans, and frontiers that are more immediately felt, imagined, and currently cherished.
Explaining the Smart Behavior of Low Income Earners
Often, many medium income earning to high income earning people cannot understand the reasons for which people who earn low income, or who are sometimes either nearly homeless or are of several inconsistent home implied contracts, of other persons’ making, do spend their limited financial powers and opportunities on pursuits and endeavors that are not all solely aimed at financial improvement.
The path to ‘financial improvement’ if pre-committed of pre-action to, is disastrous to embrace as reason to be.
This ‘financial improvement’ obsessive mission, features sacrificing too many human costs to quality of living, and mostly to fulfill the ethical bent (and badly of bent) of elders. So, often these same many greater income earning people assume offhandedly that low income earners should simply go full-tilt living only to capacitate greater financial position, or reduce financial weakness.
It is a reality that the potential for financial improvement that could be gained by nearly starving oneself, or of only eating with no niceties, could for many persons only avail them of enough monthly increase in financial power, or reduction in monthly decrease of such, to mean that over the course of approximately 200 years (that’s 2,400 months) of such meager monthly improvements: net worth might increase (or inversely if negative, decrease in magnitude of negative status) by some small amounts per month, truly not worth the quality in momentary living human leverage cut. Thus, for those smarter, it stands as folly to chase personal Net Worth. Personal Net Worth after all is a metric for other persons to ooh and ahh about, and not of much personal human leverage ability, during the present tense.
It is accidentally cruel, for some greater income earning persons to expect those earning low incomes to relegate themselves to a utilitarian monetary stranglehold placed above their own essential human recreation, reward, enjoyment, entertainment, and at least some few rich-living trappings of real living in a real life.
These factors cannot well or even effectively be accounted for only in terms of finances and amenities, when done coldly by others making assessments for them. These factors are essentially standard to our human independent living (as couples or singletons) adult condition, but a distaste for analysis of the ways in which we humans standardly operate is a stumbling block to which many punt at behavioral experts, who in turn are placed in awkward positions, instantly after which they are smart to not immediately complain of, yet instead regularly continue as very recently redirected, as only avails, practically.
My stance aims to defend those who are impoverished and working ‘partially’ and thus ‘irregularly’ (reasonably, differing from ‘continually’) on financial improvement (that meaning also spending, a financial activity, enjoyably, also), for smartly maintaining quality of living with niceties, regardless of that not being in keeping with elder advice and informal contractual bends, obsessing over the financial or safety bottom lines.
Some readers might not be aware that bread and water living stands as unacceptable self-foolish self-treatment, when every adult’s personal welfare depends greatly (as ever included in the mix or blend, continually, and never as rarity) of optional pursuit engagement several or more times per day.
There is no need for any reader to feel bad about not having considered this reality for low income earners. From my observations on the human condition, theorizing up other peoples’ experiences just never has the potential to work much, in the first place. One must live certain situations to gain personal former-experience, or as in this case, read or hear a recount from someone who is personally former-experienced with particular living situations. Nothing matches real former-experience, firsthand: no former-experience while in education which occurred during other than of low cost living (to which education never costs low); but as an exception, in cases has some low cost living been former-experienced, after professional certification, and when then later away from scholarship funding, or former parental fundings.
Continuing, there is also a good reason for the upkeep of near-term to medium-term frontiers, for retaining newness (in detail) to potentials near and medium ahead. This upkeep, surprising to many persons, is inverse. It is to stave off pre-plots out of path, and it is to stave off predetermination in terms of time durations of months and years in futures.
Thus, I defend by negation (a process of assertation not at or with such persons, but of aside mentioning more aimed to be noted by their common and stereotypical detractors) low income earners as smart to deviate from elders’ instructions.
This is better professionally and personally conceptually understandable, when challenging stereotypes with case issues: such as concerning those persons of low incomes putting monies into such as ‘the lottery’ for results unknown (gladly), on so very many days, for smartly keeping their frontiers open, all day long.
A sad case in point I believe results from some particular parties attempting to assist and support disabled mentally ill persons by providing convenient and comfortable assisted-living, all prearranged and settled. This only happens in a blind void, full of misunderstanding human nature common to all adults living independent of elders themselves. Those making these types of decisions have never tried to live this way themselves, and do not know how the preeminent feature of having a future, is having an nice component of unknown status involved, ever in any person’s future, such future being possessed by each of us while ‘during’ the ‘occurring’ present-tense ‘occurrent.’
Equipping disabled persons with everything prearranged and pre-managed seems, at first inaccurate glance, to be a great bad idea. Once assigned to assisted-care facilities, a situation might have been felt deep in the potentials of many: of no future that could be currently had/leveraged with nicer unknowns, which then acts cascading against personal opting, as to where a person might be residing in the years ahead, or of that which a person might be doing for occupation or pursuits in years ahead, and so on. This cascade tumble-impacts: during the ongoing occurrent.
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