Your message is completely right Hive account@spenceryan
The status quo is not for everyone, especially me. Unfortunately I did not realise this until the final year of my degree.. I agree though, if you look at the broad spectrum of human behaviour across different cultures all around the world it seems pretty clear to me that there are many different ways we can be living our lives. Here in the west we are indoctrinated from a very young age and told that if we work hard in school, we can get a good job and go on to be 'successful'. Whatever that means. I believe this is part of the problem. That we do not question the dogma that money + social status = success. But this could not be further from the truth in my eyes!