The good ol American Dream!!
The dream where you graduate from high school and then take out massive loans to attend a great college.
Then after you earn your degree, you land that great job making $100,000.
Then now you can afford your $250,000 house and your $60,000 car.
You are able to purchase every new tech gadget to show off your status symbol.
Life is just wonderful.....until you peel back the layers and catch a glimpse of reality.
You suddenly realize that your degree cost more than you bring home in a year AFTER taxes.
That dream job making $100,000 turns out to be a nightmare.
You end up hating your boss and most of your co-workers because of the office politics.
Then you look down and what was once invisible, you can now see.
You finally see the chains around you wrist and ankles.
You are tied...tied to your house, car, and student loans and tech gadgets.
And just to keep up with all of these things you are forced to go to a job you hate.
A job you can't step away from unless another man or woman allows it.
A job where you are put into a box that kills all of your creativity.
A job that squeezes you into mediocracy.
Then you think back to when you were a kid.
You think back to that wild imagination that you had of what you wanted to be when you grew up.
And then you think back to your reality of living the American Dream.
And then you wonder....
Is this the dream you wanted or just a dream someone created for you?
I always struggled to figure out what I wanted to do in life. I thought that my future was laid in a management position at some job. It wasn't until I really started to think about life that my vision became a bit more clear. All of my life I heard that success is getting a good job, nice house, and car. Oh...you can't forget you 1-2 weeks of vacation, unless you been with the same company for 10-20 years then you get a whole nother week!! Yippiee!!
I learned that instead of working for money all of our life, we should make more work for us. And the great thing is that it's not even hard to do, it just requires changing some habits. I'm not bashing anybody with a 9-5 because I know plenty of people that love their job, but for me, it's something that I have to break away from so that I can become the best me that I can be. Oh and did I mention that I can be as creative as I want without having to get an idea approved by 10 people up the chain?
Look, the main point I want to make is to STOP working for money and make money work for you. Stop chasing a dream that was created for you and chase the dream of what you really want. Stop buying things that do not fulfill you in life just to keep up with the Joneses because at the end of the day, they are broke.
Also check out my video on this topic as well
I wish all of you well on this journey through life as well all try to figure it out.
Till next time Steemians...Steem on!!
