So, I'm still on the job hunt. I had a job and lost it by technicality. Then I "had" a job and lost it by counterfeit. I wish I could not work. No one really wants to work. So few people actually have that job that is their passion. Why do we work? It's pointless. If nobody had money then no one would need money. If no one had a job, then nobody would need a job. And maybe some people think it would be boring. That they need to work, and impress and whatever the hell people want to work for. If you are a scientist, there is no reason you can't be a scientist. There is no reason you can't still pursue things. (Honestly, if you dream of a desk job, how much are you missing?) It's not a halt to society. Not having a job doesn't mean you wouldn't work. You would read or work on your house or tend a garden or practice dancing or go to movies and plays or travel or blow glass or whatever. Our creative and intelligent minds must pursue! It's just the blinding, driving green snow of money boxes us into this idea of what life should be. We have placed these binds on ourselves! We spend so much time trying to survive this crazy, oppressive life we have built, that we don't even know what freedom means anymore. We think spending 40+ hours a week at a job doing work for someone else to make a little bit of money that big brother and his deadbeat family whittle away from you so you can afford to spend two weeks a year rushing around until your too tired to think on "vacation" being "yourself" is FREE? So if you spent 40 hours a week for 40 years at your job that means you spent about 9 1/2 years of your life doing work that benefited you in almost no way at all. And let's be honest, most people probably work closer to 50+ years.
Let's see, when was the term 'mid-life crisis' coined...it was put into the The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis in 1965. So people have been working proper jobs for a while now and these days the life span of humans has lengthened and midlife is now increasingly reaching a median of 50 years. Whereas, before this time, it might have been around 30 years. Think about who you are at 30 and who you are at 50. You have two extra decades of time, work, sweat. You have that much more time to think about yourself and who you are and what you would do with your life if you just had the time. People started looking at their lives differently. Wondering about the point of it all. Sure we progress and we advance but we still sit and drone st jobs while looking out windows at pretty days wishing we were out in them. Why? before we started getting older we worked until we were dead. Then we were like, "fuck that shit! I'm not working until I'm 80." So then this thing called retirement plucks up because people realize how completely unfulfilling having a job is, how much they are missing and in their elder years hope to see some of it before they die after wasting so much time. So we have a crisis where we realize that we have done nothing for our own self in our own life, and we splurge and go a little crazy and blow a bunch of money that we now realize is meaningless to happiness, but the problem is we are still stuck in a culture that prevents us from living our lives to the fullest. Everyone should be able to travel and see the world their whole lives. We have so little time as it is, we should put all our effort into exploring and learning that life. Learning ourselves and others and this world and other worlds and galaxies and universes. We are far too complacent in this life. Believing that our species is somehow a pinnacle of existence is just depressingly close-minded. Who would want to live in a reality so small? One so finite, with little to no room for improvisation...it's scary. And it's not even real. It's just our own minds, too afraid of endless possibility to allow it to happen. So we create these ideas of money and work and taxes and debt that keep us separated and weak as a species. No one should have to work. And it's not that I think the government should take care of everyone because I think those are stupid too. The entire system is flawed. The way we perceive it is flawed.
conclusively,
Mav
