I just want enough money to live, enough to pay the bills, have a bit of freedom, maybe work a couple of days a week doing something useful, and spend the rest of my time actually living my life. Now that's my kind of ambition.

I still don't get how this isn't everyone's dream.

I realize it wasn't the intention, but to me, this was super inspiring and hopeful. I never wanted that life either, but I find myself in a point of change. What worked before (freelancing as a copywriter) don't work no more because of AI. I like teaching yoga but frequently guilt-trip myself cause I don't follow any of the rules and how-tos, and besides, the hustle of it is slowly taking out the pleasure I had so many years in practicing. So it's a transitional moment and I find myself looking at all these "steady, secure" people in the job market before I remind myself I never wanted any of that and still don't.

Thank you for reminding me that steadiness and security is also an illusion, especially in this crazy day and age.

Because the older I get, the more I realise the people who seem richest to me are the ones who have time. I look at the older people at the beach with their energy, laughter, chilled out nervous systems. That seems like success to me.

💯 Absolutely. World's too full of people working themselves to the bone in the hope of a mythical golden age that they're usually too sick or too dead to enjoy. Or, dunno if better or worse, people who pour so much of themselves into their "career" and forget to make a life, build relationships, discover themselves and what not, that they don't know what to do with the time and possibly money when it finally comes.

Scary.