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| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
As you grow older, you often feel the need to follow a specific career (whatever it might be) and settle down, as arsing around may have negative social consequences, and the odds of meeting someone you want to be with for an indeterminate amount of time increases. |
I was actually thinking about just this, reading anotherway's post in OrangestO's 'major move' thread. I was hesitant to respond because it's such a fucking bummer wrench in the gears, but the fact of the matter is that the world is stacked against giving the tiniest fuck about you. The rage to exist is maybe the only thing that matters to *anyone*, and even then it is the struggle of conviction, if you are so privileged as to be afforded expression.
It's bleak, and you can glad-hands around the issue all you like, but on some level it is absolutely true. And it completely ties into owning property, career prospects, social clout, etc. Picking up and starting all over again is an alluring prospect; there exists an escapism that will easily yearn to be quelled all our lives, and this is not an empty thing in the least, if tempered by the things that anchor us, that hold us accountable. Sometimes all that we want is to get away from it all, but maturing with this streak is just a matter of managing yourself such that you can be depended upon and resolved to shed absolutely everything that is inessential.
Bleh, that is abstract.
I guess what I am saying is that you need to fucking get it -and get it early- because anyone who understands compound interest knows that most people are fucked and will die broke. It's not fair at all, but I would fight tooth and nail to not start all over again when I am halfway to retirement.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
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