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While you’re usually aware of being under a lot of stress, you don’t always notice burnout when it happens.
==Money and a Home ?==
excerpted from fb thread
https://www.facebook.com/groups/hitchgathering/844487905564777
-Dante-Gabryell Monson-
My own experience stretched 5 years, continuously. I now realize it may facilitate communication to travel totally moneyless, as it may help feeling more relaxed about the potential pressure of needing to keep up with monetary expectations from people we meet. It facilitates communication. As some other people who posted on this thread, I traveled usually with a bit of money. ( in average, 100 euros a month, over the first 3 years, then 200 euros a month in the last 2 years , although with constant uncertainty / no regular income ). Sometimes there was none at all. Having some money, makes certain choices possible. Not having money in a society that has dominant social contracts depending on it is very much possible, yet more often in a mode of resource usage optimization / sharing ( including hospitality and hitch hiking ). Running out of choice, getting burned out over the years, took me years to recover from. So I certainly recommend having a region to be able to return, without the stress of having to leave every few days. The difficult part for me, was feeling I needed to move on, even when I felt good with people in a certain city, but not being in a position where I can impose myself. The last one and a half years, I had a girlfriend to return to, which certainly helped. Yet, still very much in a precarious situation ( both of us , at that time ). I am now back in Brussels, slowly learning not to feel guilt in relation to money. Yet also building on alternatives. ( such as using semantic technologies for enabling new forms of engagements / interdependencies )
It is tricky to evaluate what a certain sum of money may represent, as it can depend on a situation, and on the costs within the country one may be in. Since I returned to Brussels, I did not live off more money then I did while on the road ( after paying rent ), yet I progressively built more security in the form of more geographically dense networks of friends. In effect, it is not as much the lack of money, but the lack of choice to stay in one place - that lead me to burnout after 5 years on the road.
My interpretation is that it is more about social contracts / relational dynamics. With money being used across a certain set of relational dynamics.
What living without money promotes, is to put forward Communal Shareholding ( based on intention ? ). I find the following of interest :
http://p2pfoundation.net/Relational_Model_Typology_-_Fiske
"According to Fiske, there are four basic types of inter-subjective dynamics, valid across time and space, in his own words: "People use just four fundamental models for organizing most aspects of sociality most of the time in all cultures. These models are" :
Communal Sharing
Authority Ranking
Equality Matching
Market Pricing
== See also ==
