Life is just about rat race?

When asked what surprised him most about humanity, the Dalai Lama answered, 

" We sacrifice our health in order to make wealth, then we sacrifice our wealth in order to get back our health."

We are so anxious about what will happen in the future that we don't enjoy the present. The result being, we don't live in the present or the future.

We end up living feeling like we are never going to die and then die never having truly lived.

Ellen Goodman said," normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need to pay for the clothes and car and the home that is empty all day just so you can afford to live in it."

We live in a world where day dreams are more common than dream jobs where money clouds our search for profit. We sacrifice our quest for purpose and in the pursuit of those paychecks, we give up our passion, we are completely rooted to our routines.

We are plauged by indecision and lack of vision. They say that the most powerful prision is one when you dont even knoe that you are locked up. The suits are our uniforms, our cufflinks are the handcuffs, our ties are the chains, our boss is like the guard and our cubicles are our cells.

And now I know why they call it the glass ceiling because it shatters our dreams. We spend our whole day trying to get our work on time, but then spend all of our time thinking about work.We countdown the next 50 weeks knowing that there is another 50 years. We live as ourselves 2 days on weekend in a week.

23/6/2020 

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