Great story. Sounds like a nice evolution you had there. Most of us here are on a similar trajectory.

I learnt a while back that when you go vote, it's a ritual to give up your power to someone else, so they can suck it up and use it to gain power and control over you. The vote come from volt, poll from a power poll, you put someone in power, so you power up a poll with your own voltage of energy to give to someone else.

Whether this is true or not, it got me thinking about my low energy and how we all line up in a row, like obedient little slaves, and one by one, check off a box, and then that person, who promised things that would help us, does other things and nothing actually benefits us in the end, they are still taking our money. A King's Tax Man from Robin Hood stories or from medieval times is seen as something bad, but when you tell a person making that very same point about extortion that taxation by the government today is the exact same thing, they scoff at you. The only difference between today and then is that back then, they went door to door to collect the money, today we have to send cheques. Back then, they took your belongings away if you didn't pay and took your crop and sheep. Today, they fling a gun at you while they take your flat screen tv.

There are people who don't mind giving taxes and the voluntary system would allow them to continue to do so, but then those of us who are less able to give monetarily at the moment, would have the option to keep our money, sort ourselves out, and give what we can when we can, at the time of our choosing. It would also allow us to give for specific projects to which we would want to contribute. So maybe person A give a few buck for the roads reconstruction, person B prefers to give for the bridge, while person C wants to give to support home schooling parents. Oh yeah, and the schooling system would be voluntary too. Not all of us are Neurotypicals who can "live" soundly and happily in a neurotypical system. But I digress.

Thank you for sharing your story. Saw your post resteemed, now I am Following you. I'm glad to connect with another like-minded soul :)