So well said, and so many great points, @tarazkp. I find the idea very interesting that we quit earlier. There are so many reasons why this might be true, in my mind. Maybe it’s because we all feel as though we live in a fish bowl in this social media-driven world. Or we have taken so seriously the notion that we have rights and freedoms (which is another topic I’m dwelling on) that we feel justified and free to do whatever we please, including just quitting anything that’s uncomfortable. We have become a judgmental people. We feel free to judge and incriminate others, and don’t want that spotlight turned back on ourselves. And the number of options for skills and life pursuits is so plentiful that we can cast out any of them and shift. That is another thing I mull over - the notion that a world of opportunity is healthy and wonderful until it makes us feel privileged, over-stimulated, wasteful and unfocused. Much to think about.
I always enjoy reading your posts and they always make me ponder!
Oh, you have hit on something here for sure! I feel there is plenty of this - the entitlement to do nothing but want it all.
Spoiled for choice. We have become frozen, playing games at nothing, pretending that it is meaningful, while what is meaningful in us withers away. There is so much opportunity for us to improve ourselves and our world - yet we sit idle.
Thank you for taking the time to add thought into a great comment.
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ENGAGEtokens.Yes, exactly. Spoiled for choice. Good way of putting it. It can be absolutely paralyzing. And I think in a simpler world, where the choices amount to what to do to put food on the table, there is less despondency and depression. I recall reading about a remote village somewhere that was deemed one of the happiest places on earth. And they had so little. They just hunted, gathered and lived.
Yep, the poorest places seem to be the happiest. also, they tend to have the strongest social networks.