Life catches up
Why is that people give up on their dreams as "life catches up" with them? Isn't it messed up that we live in a world where we kill our dreams and our souls because we are driven to by so called life?
Life here in this context represents the procurement of a career, a house, a family, children, or anything else we consider in the grand excuse of life we use to rational the death of our dreams. How did it become acceptable to live in a society where most of our time is put towards building a career to fund your home, that will house your family and then children, while rationalizing that life made this so?
We spend a great amount of our short valuable lives procuring the training and education needed to land a career that will in turn get us a place to call home. To be able to house our families, then proceed to spend all that time working to pay away the debt procured. While in the process ignoring and being away from the very family you wanted to shelter and be with. Am I the only one who finds this notion extremely ridiculous? Please tell me I'm crazy! Or are we as a society insane to have this notion accepted as totally normal and acceptable?
How many examples of shattered dreams do we see around us. We all have a Mother, Father, Aunt, Uncle, friend, Coworker, teacher, boss, or any random stranger that we met or know that has when asked about their dreams when they were younger told us something like this "I always wanted to be an artist, musician, dancer, humanitarian, or I wanted to travel, help others, change society, write a book, or want to spend a lot more time with my family or loved ones, or more spare time to do what I like and enjoy...but “life caught up." As in code for I have to work long hard hours to progress the dream of another person as they use my work and efforts to make a living off my hard work just so I can pay off the overly inflated debt+interest I have been shackled to pay off for another 15 to 20 years of my life. Just so I can live in my house (which I'm barely at anyway) and to shelter my family (which I have no time for and neither do they). I have to pay off the debt of this car, I bought to travel to the job I work at so I can pay off this car. Life which was once seen as a precious gift has now been perverted to become what seems to be a burdening sentence of suffering and slaving for... Life.
This not how I intend to live my life, and I do not wish this life upon that of the future generations to come. This perverted version of life we live in must be changed dramatically and not politically. This change will not be brought about by protesting and law making, it can only be brought about through defiance and example. We as a society and as people must come to change and integrate a new way of life and living standard. Go beyond the little details and think universally and globally not divisionally and selfishly.
Life here in this context represents the procurement of a career, a house, a family, children, or anything else we consider in the grand excuse of life we use to rational the death of our dreams. How did it become acceptable to live in a society where most of our time is put towards building a career to fund your home, that will house your family and then children, while rationalizing that life made this so?
We spend a great amount of our short valuable lives procuring the training and education needed to land a career that will in turn get us a place to call home. To be able to house our families, then proceed to spend all that time working to pay away the debt procured. While in the process ignoring and being away from the very family you wanted to shelter and be with. Am I the only one who finds this notion extremely ridiculous? Please tell me I'm crazy! Or are we as a society insane to have this notion accepted as totally normal and acceptable?
How many examples of shattered dreams do we see around us. We all have a Mother, Father, Aunt, Uncle, friend, Coworker, teacher, boss, or any random stranger that we met or know that has when asked about their dreams when they were younger told us something like this "I always wanted to be an artist, musician, dancer, humanitarian, or I wanted to travel, help others, change society, write a book, or want to spend a lot more time with my family or loved ones, or more spare time to do what I like and enjoy...but “life caught up." As in code for I have to work long hard hours to progress the dream of another person as they use my work and efforts to make a living off my hard work just so I can pay off the overly inflated debt+interest I have been shackled to pay off for another 15 to 20 years of my life. Just so I can live in my house (which I'm barely at anyway) and to shelter my family (which I have no time for and neither do they). I have to pay off the debt of this car, I bought to travel to the job I work at so I can pay off this car. Life which was once seen as a precious gift has now been perverted to become what seems to be a burdening sentence of suffering and slaving for... Life.
This not how I intend to live my life, and I do not wish this life upon that of the future generations to come. This perverted version of life we live in must be changed dramatically and not politically. This change will not be brought about by protesting and law making, it can only be brought about through defiance and example. We as a society and as people must come to change and integrate a new way of life and living standard. Go beyond the little details and think universally and globally not divisionally and selfishly.
"It's just a ride" ;) Bill Hicks is my idol
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DeleteMate, this post was real deep. Like proper. Kudos.
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ReplyDeleteIt is deep.
DAMN SON.
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