The modern world has accustomed us to the idea that we keep needing to make money. Make money to do what? To do things that will make us happy, things that don't involve work!
Now this puts us in an unenviable trap. While working, we are all the time fantasizing about our time off. We don't enjoy the work as a consequence. While taking our time off, we want to "maximise" that limited window, so we try to pack more and more things in it, go to better and better "destinations", and have better and better insta pictures in order to make our friends more and more envious.
Our friends when they look at our insta pictures of our road trip in our newly acquired Tesla, are not thinking about us - they are thinking about themselves in that situation and having FOMO. The time we don't spend on actually doing something is the time spent on FOMO.
So we are all the time doing something that we want to escape out of, that thing called work, in order to earn money to do high octane things to impress others who don't give a shit but which cost a lot of money, and at the same time envying those who are somewhere else!
There is something drastically wrong in this whole construct.
It is both sad and hilarious at the same time. Like most tragedies in life are.
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