There's gotta be more to life than my fears,
Than money, degrees, and careers.
Call me weird,
But this is not how I want to use my years.
But I'm not interested in sitting behind a desk
9 hours a day
To pay a morgage on a house I'm never at
The more you make, the more you have to pay.
I don't want to spend 40 years
Trapped in front of a screen
Chasing money.
Working 50 weeks to live for 2.
Spending what I sell myself for just to stay alive.
Why is living so expensive?
Wouldn't farming my own land be better than this?
I can't sit still for more than 3 hours.
A 9-5 job will kill everything that's creative and vibrant about me.
I'll hate life.
Worse than that, I'll get used to it.
It'll feel normal to never walk farther than from my office to my car.
Normal to stare glazed eyed at a computer.
Normal to have a normal job instead of living.
Is this what my degree is supposed to get me?
A life of inactivity?
You've got to be kidding me!
Am I the only one unhappy
With a system this crazy?
Humans are supposed to work outside
With their hands in the dirt and their hearts in the sky.
Humans are supposed to connect face to face
Not via computer interface.
Why would I
Spend my life
Chasing something I can't keep?
Something I can only spend again?
I don't care about money!
I care about being free,
About relationships with others,
About babies, about art,
About nature.
I will not bow to this unnatural system.
I refuse to conform.
I want to travel across the globe
See the world.
I want to make friends.
I want to go on adventures.
Surely it doesn't take a full time job
Just to live.
I don't need a big house
Or any house
Just a little place to come home to.
Nothing fancy.
Someone save me from the system.
I don't want to assimilate.
There must be another way.
There must be.