RE: Are Happier Times Just an Illusion?
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I remember when I was on rack for "the American dream." I had graduated with a degree and no debt. I had a place of my own. I had a job with what looked like a glowing future. Those were happier times. And then it all crumbled around me. I don't feel like I've been on anything resembling a path to success since 2008. I've been making the best of bad situations since. Even now, while I like most aspects of my job, it doesn't really offer enough hours or enough pay for me to make another go at independence. "Just get another job," people say, but with my health issues, this takes every bit of energy I have. It doesn't suck, but it still drains me. Happier times were real, especially when everything feels like a struggle just to stay afloat now.
I can totally empathize with that. I suppose there are people out there for whom life turns out (more or less) as they had hoped/expected, and maybe that's the proverbial "carrot" that has somehow helped the rest of us continue in our own quests.
I'm sure I could have created the stereotypical path of success... had I not decided to actually do that "stupid" thing of thinking for myself, rather than blindly follow the groupthink version of what one should strive for in life.
Everything comes with a "price;" there's something we might wish for, but we have to forego something else to get it... even if just in the form of choices we make.