Where has society gone? No more are the days of childhood wonder about the world or enjoying moments with the ones we love. All we have left are work hours and dreading to go to work, hours. There is no time for you, and if there is, you are sacrificing work or lacking in money and doing something that is not acceptable in today's society; taking time to reflect and relax from your freakin everyday "fun" routine that accelerates your life to a point of no return. It accelerates your life until one day you sit down and think, what the hell am I doing, is this what life is about? You wake up and realize that this routine is killing you and what we people are, free. Usually by then it is too late to change anything, so doctors in todays society have termed it a "mid life crisis", but in reality it is realization of your meaningless routine. Our civilization has turned into an ant colony. Everybody hates this lifestyle but does it anyway because the other choice is not publicised, unless you are born into a rich family or win the lottery; majority of us don't like our jobs and that is the truth. The price of freedom ladies and gentlemen is not being free. Sounds about right, it is the "Disclosure Agreement or Terms and Conditions Clause" for the "American Dream".
Ofcoarse, proffesional athletes will read this and think how full of crap this article is because they get millions of dollars to do something they love. I would like that too. Hit a ball behind a wall and get $20million a year for it, sounds like it's well earned. Then we have teachers, programmers, project managers, that bust their asses everyday and take their job home with them and get paid 100 to a 1000 times less. It sounds like something is unbalanced, yeah thats right, the teachers get paid too much. No, the athletes have no real effort and get big payoff, no wonder all the kids dream of being sports stars. Sounds like our civilization is going somewhere, a place of work and happy hours, translation; working then drinking and complaining about working. Well there are perks left to this life, like driving your well earned bmw or corolla to work (fun part of day), then driving it to a bar or restaurant, then the fun ends because you are too drunk to drive it home. However this routine we have, does leave plenty of time to meet other people; in a 24 hour day you get a whopping 1-2 hours which cut away from any other free time you have. It is not surprising that marriage success rates have plummeted and the number of single people has skyrocketed. This society we got going here works like a well oiled machine but too bad we are the oil. We are the fuel for our own wear, tear, and eventual demise.
I THINK IT'S TIME FOR AN OIL CHANGE.
DON'T YOU?
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interesting summary, but consider other perspectives as well. there are millions of people who are happy (or do not know that they are unhappy). happiness really could be explained as a balance between your desires and your means, so anybody can be happy if they can curb their desires or increase their means ...plus you should change your job (if you are working though)
where you are working right now? and where you going for happy hour? perhaps you should change the bar. cheer up man. you are too sad. if you are going to happy hours, then that means you are young, and if you are young, then you can set your goals and do whatever you want -- just do it -- decisiveness man!
ok here is my comment. I do and I do not like this article. There is some real anaylsis and observations, but are they based on real or imaginary experience? but it certainly can make people have thoughts about reflecting
very reflective insights....... I like it.
Everybody does get tired of their routine eventually, that was the whole point of the article. It is just that some do not have the courage to admit it because it goes against society standards!
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