maybe it's for the money- but that's just plain materialism. no one needs the moolah in excess, just to live confortably. materialism, consumerism on a vast scale is supposed to be bad, isn't it? spending vast quantities of money on things we don't really need when people are starving and suffering in our own back yards is unjustifiable, is it not?
and then i watched top gear (the XKR v. AM V8 Vantage bit), and i remembered why i need to succeed. some things you can get without vast sums of money- the house, the urban SUV, the kids. but some things redefine consumerism and transform desire into need. some things blur the line between necessity and passion.
nothing blurs that line more than these two.
you work not because you're afraid you won't live the life you always dreamed about. you're never really afraid of the stick. it's the carrots that make you run on that treadmill, regardless of how instinctively stupid it seems at the time. and if being able to drive either of these babies somewhere down the road, then bring on the work.
i'm ready for it.
you work not because you're afraid you won't live the life you always dreamed about. you're never really afraid of the stick. it's the carrots that make you run on that treadmill, regardless of how instinctively stupid it seems at the time. and if being able to drive either of these babies somewhere down the road, then bring on the work.
i'm ready for it.
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I still maintain that somewhere deep, like really deep, there's some good in you.
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-tara :)
well put. it's so important that we do something we are passionate about. but sometimes, inevitably, we are unable to discover that passion early on. and we all need some extrinsic motivation (no matter how superficial it may make us seem); whoever lies about needing absolutely none of it at all deserves a whopping.
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