Could not do that around here, the water doesn't flow fast enough and it's swamp at best and reconstituted duck crap at worst XD

When I was running my own business and trying really hard to build the "alternative" lifestyle that I wanted, I kind of felt like "the systems" weere deliberately designed to force people to stay soley in their lanes (on bad days I feel like sometimes it even tries to stop people changing lanes meaningfully) and do exactly as they're told and while it theoretically didn't stop you it really felt all but impossible to do anything other than that so I'm not surprised that most people "stay the course" because trying to do anything else is an endless uphill battle and it's exhausting.

_{today I'm hovering between still being pretty damn furious that I didn't fully achieve the lifestyle I wanted and pretty content because we did manage bits of it and life is pretty good}

I'm sure a lot of people will immediately try to put it out of their minds because it probably makes them feel bad/not quite as good people as they would like to believe about themselves but talking to them about it would at least make them think a bit if nothing else and hopefully give them a little nudge.

Unlike you I'm completely useless at talking so I just keep trying to show that a lot of things are entirely possible if you only invent excuses for some things rather than literally everything.