Perspectives of life and such....

We all know people who encounter all these things but never experience them, and who rarely experience any joy at all. Instead, they wake up at four in the morning because that's when their alarm clocks go off. They brush their teeth and put on a pot of coffee. They dress themselves in the same old clothes , eat the same old soggy cereal and spend the morning wondering to themselves if there is anything in life they hate worse than their job. They somehow make it to work, put in their time, do a lot of stuff that doesn't seem to matter, come home, eat dinner, go to bed and then start all over again. They feel no pain, but they feel no joy - they're barely alive. Millions and millions of people live like this every day and we should all stay motivated to avoid falling prey to this living hell.

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Calcapt,
Outstanding post! You will never know how much I needed that kind of message today. Thanks for the adjustment in perspective!
 
We all know people who encounter all these things but never experience them, and who rarely experience any joy at all. Instead, they wake up at four in the morning because that's when their alarm clocks go off. They brush their teeth and put on a pot of coffee. They dress themselves in the same old clothes , eat the same old soggy cereal and spend the morning wondering to themselves if there is anything in life they hate worse than their job. They somehow make it to work, put in their time, do a lot of stuff that doesn't seem to matter, come home, eat dinner, go to bed and then start all over again. They feel no pain, but they feel no joy - they're barely alive. Millions and millions of people live like this every day and we should all stay motivated to avoid falling prey to this living hell.

Wasn't that the point of Revolutionary Road? It also reminds me of a quote from The Shawshank Redemption: "Get busy living, or get busy dying"
 
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