No I’m not talking about getting married. I’m talking about finding something that motivates you: Perhaps your calling, what you were meant to do if you did not have to go to work every day to support your … uh … lifestyle 😉
I found that once I found a free hobby, the more I focused on it, the less money I spent. The problem with our society is that we have basically been conditioned and programmed by marketeers to equate often pointless consumption with rewards or entitlements after hard work. It is simply the only sanctioned way feeling good. This can easily go to such an extreme that the preferred way of feeling good about oneself involves buying some needless stuff. To pay it off consumers go to work the next day to manufacture stuff for the next consumer that comes along and needs to feel good. This is the very definition of a consumer driven economy. It has little other purpose than building things for people to buy things so they will keep working.
The conclusion is obvious. If you want to stop working, stop….
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