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Bendy's Thoughts

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Bendy Demon

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I look out from behind these eyes and wonder if this is all there is?

I see people running around, blissfully happy as they rush around

working all day long then go home o eat dinner and go to bed only to

do it all over again the next day.

What were we taught in school? Certainly we were not taught to

aspire to anything better than to amass degrees and a high status job

just so one can sit at a desk and feel proud for climbing the corporate ladder.

What do people do during the day? Get up, eat breakfast, battle traffic to get to work then

do stuff under the pretense of being "productive" all the while hoping one don't get canned.

Then when it is all over one goes home, eats diner and putzes around for a bit, play with the kids

if one has a family then go to bed and do the same thing all over again the next day..for the next

40 to 60 years.

Most of our life is taken up being worried about finding a job that pays the high bills of life,

forced to compete, forced to worry about whether you will even have a job, forced to worry about being able to pay 700 dollars

for rent or mortgage.

I observed life and all that I have to "look forward" to and to be honest, I am not impressed. I am not filled with the desire to

"be all I can be" or to live up to my fullest "potential".

If there is any "meaning" to this life, it certainly cannot be to work ones life away and be a slave to economics, never being secure enough that

ones first and foremost concern is NOT whether you will still have a job or enough money to make your bills.

What do people aspire to in reality? To gain knowledge just for the sake of knowledge without feeling that it is only useful or worthwhile if you can make money off of it?

Is education or learning even valued beyond the workplace?

Is independent thinking even valued or is the status quo deemed to be a virtue?

I don't know.

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msm57

I agree with your thoughts. I have raised 4 kids (mostly on my own) & have 3 grandchildren. Been married & divorced 3 times (outlived 2 of them). Am completely on my own now & all I do is go to work & survive each day. You did not mention a spiritual aspect in your thoughts, but I personally think that is where I need to look for more. Just thinking....thanks for listening.

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Bendy Demon

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Well..spirituality is a rather ambiguous term really, I do not adhere to any organized religion.

The problem I have is that if I cannot find any real meaning or purpose on my own then I cannot expect someone else to give me that either.

I have meandered throughout my life having no real goals. I never had any ideas of what I wanted to do when I got older and I still don't.

I look at my neighbors and in some ways I am envious of how they can just get up each day, go to work and come back home only to do the same over and over. They appear blissfully happy and unconcerned that this is their lot in life, that this is what modern day education has prepared them for is to be wage slaves, chasing after jobs, being "productive (I always hated that term) and being good consumers.

Meh..guess I am just in a dark mood right now.

I thank you too for reading and responding.

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RedDusk

I like this. It tends to show what some people miss by not stopping and "smelling the roses". Thank you for the read.

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