All that is required of anyone in life is to pay one's bills - to pay for the cost of being alive in the form of food and shelter. Everything beyond that is bonus.
Those pursuing the so-called "American Dream" forget that. Everything becomes about how much can be made by investing in things. I don't want to invest in things. I buy things that I'm personally going to use until it falls apart. I don't need a house when I already have a roof over my head. Rent is not a waste of money. Being alive isn't free.
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I am: a roleplayer, a fiction writer, a sci-fi fan. A yoga enthusiast. A former Battlenet brapper and member of [Wolf]. A marine scientist, former Chinese takeout cashier, and freelance writer (mostly science articles for BrightHub). I presently live in Mobile, Alabama. Feel free drop me general comments here, or I can be reached at (in reverse order): com dot gmail at rynko.brown
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When you were born, you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Try to live a life so that when you die, everyone else is crying and you're smiling. --anon
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. -- a fortune cookie
1 comment:
What, exactly, is this "American Dream" you are talking about, that doesn't entail paying for one's own life? Moving out in the forest and hunting moose by digging pits with your bare hands or hand-crafted makeshift tools is certainly a dream, but I wouldn't think that it would be widespread enough to be called an "American" dream ;)
(I'm taking more notice of the sentences "Being alive isn't free" than any references to investing, the latter which I assume are about stock markets and the like)
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