Have you ever witnessed years of your life slip by without accomplishing a single thing? Have you ever wasted decades of your life, to end up no further ahead than you are behind?
To some it is easy - slow gradual growth, routine, boring monotonous behavior rewarded through a meager retirement that usually ends up being cut short, because you cant stop shitting yourself and end up in extended care regardless of how well or healthy you lived. I just cant bring myself to do it.
You work your ass off for 40 plus years, postpone all immediate gratification, for a good few years? If that is the formula for a great retirement, I better start working harder at trying to live an unhealthily lifestyle so I die long before retirement is even an option. Why would I want to travel the world when I am 65 and cant even walk up a flight of stairs?
Sadly, it just seems like the way that we formulate life in North America is a little skewed. Though these words may all simply be the ramblings of 32 year old man-child, in another breath they may be the words of an enlightened individual. Why postpone living life until you are almost dead? It just doesn't make any sense.
How much do you want to bet that one of these people are wearing a diaper!