Why does the human race all follow the same path as one another? We all get sent to school, graduate, then we're told if we want to be anything then we have to go to college and get that degree. Then we graduate that and get an internship somewhere and slave away. Spend all our time away from the ones we love and the things we love. We justify it by telling our loved ones and ourselves that it will all get better in time when we move up the ladder. How do we know we will be given that time? We don't know how long we will be on this Earth before we die. So we slave away, get some promotions and yet we still feel empty, lost and depressed. We put off happiness and actual living throughout most of our life just to work a job that makes us stressed and miserable. Raise our kids to believe that they have to take the same path, even though we hate the life we have. We save up what we can to buy that nice car… The rest of our pay cheque goes toward paying our huge mortgage. A house that has so much useless stuff in it. All stuff that we bought out of materialism because "society tells us we need it". Then we get the huge promotion we've been waiting 30 years for. Yet we end up feeling no happier for it. Its exciting at first and then we're left with this void in our hearts because true happiness and fulfillment is love and friendship, sharing, compassion and true experiences, travel and adventure. We spend our whole lives miserable for what?
Why do we do this to ourselves?
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