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We Don’t Need To Mind Each Other At All

Deborah Kristina
4 min readDec 18, 2022

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How is what is in my bank account any of your business?

How is it your business at all whether I have a bank account or not anyway?

How is the way that I spend my days any of your business either?

I became disillusioned with the idea of being employed in one field and leveling up in it a long time ago.

I think that going from one workplace to another to be a part of a different team and learning what goes on behind the scenes is not an unintelligent way to go about spending one’s life. I think that there is a side somewhere in people that has them wondering about whole lot of things but many choose the more practical route of staying employed in the same line of work long-term and rising up in it in order to gradually earn a higher salary annually or every few years.

With inflation being as high as it is and not having the financial cushion available, I see no wrong in going about life safely and realistically; I by no means put anyone who has chosen to specialize on a subject for years in order to become an expert on it and to earn a higher income by doing so down.

I only ask that people understand my approach to living.

Since all I’ve gotten is people criticizing me or thinking there is something horribly wrong with my…

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Deborah Kristina
Deborah Kristina

Written by Deborah Kristina

Author of ‘A Girl All Alone Somewhere in the World’, ‘Confessions and Thoughts of a Girl in Turkey’, ‘From Just a Girl Grown Up in America’. (Amazon.com)

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