Quote Originally Posted by mindwanderer View Post
People will try their hardest at school so they can get decent grades, go to University and then get a well paying job. You get that job so you can pay for the house that you sleep in. Though you have 40 if not more hours of work a week anyways. So the only time you have left is spent sleeping or paying bills. All this so you can go on working and sleeping in your house! It gets you nowhere and is soo frustrating. Just work till you die? I would rather spend life on the streets than the life that most people live. All that working gets you is the "luxury" of sleeping in a city. The only way to be able to live in the city is to work your life away. You don't get anything out of it! It all makes sense in my head but when I try to get it out it's all jumbled and doesn't make sense. Anyways maybe I'll make a follow up post and try to collect my thoughts. I hope you all get the idea I'm trying to make.
No, it doesn't have to be like that. For one thing, there are 168 hours in a week, 40 of which are usually spent working and another 40 of which are spent sleeping. That leaves you with 88 hours of free time. Then there are more options. You can have jobs that you at least sort of like, and a lot of them involve traveling. You can end up in positions that pay so well that you don't have to work 40 hours a week, and you can even own your own business and not do much work at all after a certain point. Some business owners just check in once a week and spend all day getting drunk and stoned and listening to the Grateful Dead while the manager who works for them does all of the work. That is a true situation. Better yet, some people make so much money in business that they never work again. Plus, you can get a retirement income when you are 65 any way as long as you stay with the same job for long enough. And that 40 hours you spend sleeping every week can be partly spent on lucid dreaming. The money you make is not all spent on the house. It can also be spent on boats, awesome televisions and stereos, vacations to beaches and ski mountains, and lots of other things. Life does not have to suck.

Living on the streets does suck. Do you know anybody who does that? I have known a bunch of them. They are miserable! They have no luxuries and no self-esteem. They are very bitter people who hate life. You don't want to go that route.