''"you can either choose to engage - or not"
How true that is.''
Most Ozzies just don't grasp that one does have a choice to engage in what we mostly see as 'normal' --
which would be -
leave school
either go to some kind of post school education or get a job
set up home when one can - it used to be with someone in marriage, then later partnered, now - it's a growing thing to have single households
buy stuff in life,
go on holidays
retire and move towards death
that's about it
it really doesn't have to be like that. People actually head overseas to live when they are pretty young - whilst it might seem problematic - thousands actually do it.
people in thousands now are nomadic - and many use other nations as their base - rather than their home country
When I got my first permanent job - I had been woefully exposed to how others lived and all I knew was - that one had a job, got married, had a home, worked until retirement, then died - and the jobs looked all what I now call 'boring' (and they sure were)
I don't know how my guts knew ------ but, my first dawning on just how bad things could get was on my first morning going to work -
waiting for the bus and an older man, - older then - he was probably 40 to 50. I hadn't spoken much to him in the past, but, I knew him and he was friendly, he knew it was my first working day --
when the bus came and it pulled up to a stop - and we all waked forward to get in - he said to me 'well, you're a worker now' ---------------- and bam, it hit me in the guts like a hit from a really solid punch --
it was a feeling of total dread, depression and bad bad bad ---------------- I KNEW, I don't know how I knew, but I knew.
And so, it proved to be totally correct. I found it all to be dreadful, what a totally crap way to spend a life ---------- Monday, start at 8, finish at 5, head home, back on Tuesday - same old crap - through to Friday at 5 and freedom for a couple of days - then back to the same old crap -
for what??? how ridiculous. I put up with it for about 20 years - that was soul destroying enough ----- never again. One can choose or not to be on the ship of boredom. The beige life, lived in the beige house, in the beige place, doing terribly beige things. -------------------- Na
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