You will never be a bitter old man. You do not have the makings of one. I think you can take that off the list of things that keep you up at night.
it is better to act with purpose, even if it ultimately results in failure, than to be successful at meeting the goals of our social conditioning.
Given that the social conditioning has reached surreal levels, pushing us to become things other than what we are, I agree with this. Slavery of the mind is not freedom.
I swear, I can feel the fever heating your words in this. Screw cleaning! Get in bed!
I wonder how different purpose was earlier. Now we have mass homogenization of thought and desire, mostly driving for profits, not wellbeing. I can't see it ending well for the majority of us.
I am now laying on the couch.
Oh good. I know how hard it is for you to be unproductive, but resting and just being are important drivers of health and happiness.
At my advanced age, I can tell you that lifestyles that differed from the one we are being relentlessly sold now - slaving away at some job that comes with medical insurance (trap) and retirement accounts (trap), for thirty or more years (huge trap), owning a home in the suburbs (debt trap), getting two kids raised in the same mindset (traps passed onto the next generation) - were many. Now, those of us who choose to live differently are regarded suspiciously, if not as jokes. We are being homogenized, good word. Pasteurized too.
Enslaved so that we can pay taxes and spend what little extra money we manage to havehave in company stores (amazon).
The New American Dream is Got Milk?
It is funny isn't it?
Do as you please, as long as you don't hurt anyone else - and what you do is the same as you have been told to do.
Acceptable world visions are getting smaller and smaller, and fewer and fewer. I wonder if this is true world-wide? Is this happening in every culture? I see it in western countries, but are lifestyles that seem unusual to me, such as Indonesian, also shrinking in number and size?