Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if its to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential - as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. Youll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what youre doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee youll hear about them. To invent your own lifes meaning is not easy, but its still allowed, and I think youll be happier for the trouble. - Bill Watterson
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:10:16 +0000
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