Who, what, when, why, and how. Right?
The important questions in life:
Who am I? What do I want to be when I grow up? When do I have to know
by? Why is it so important? How much does it pay?? Decisions and questions and then some…
When I was in grade school I knew exactly what I wanted to be (an
astronaut) and pretty much how to get there.
However, being as young as I was, I wasn't as thorough as I could have been
in my planning. It turns out that
engineering is really hard, not to
mention boring, and being an astronaut is more than floating around in a tin
can pushing shiny buttons and drinking Tang.
Also, unless you look a lot like Sandra Bullock, you more than likely won’t
successfully fumble your way home if you are the only surviving civilian after
a space catastrophe. Soooo maybe I chose
the wrong career?
I can do anything I set my mind to. That’s what my mama told me. What she didn't tell me (or perhaps she did
and I forgot to listen) is that money sucks and has a paradoxical relationship
with happiness. Money cannot buy
happiness, but not having money can
buy lots and lots of misery, on credit, at a ridiculously high interest
rate. I grew up with just enough to know
that everyone else had a little more, but I was happy nonetheless. Or maybe that’s why my life’s ambition was to
get off this rock. They never run out of
Tang in space.
I am definitely not unhappy now, but I can assure you that
having more money would definitely not
make me less happy. My spouse makes
twice the money that I do, but also works nearly double the hours. So we bring home a lot of those freakish
peanut pods that only have one peanut inside the shell. (Same amount of work for only half the reward). I feel like there exists somewhere a secret
balance; a mystical percentage if you will, that allows people to work a
realistic schedule and earn enough money to pay the realistic bills, maintain a
realistic social life, and put away for those future days of retirement bliss;
you know, realistically. Who can do the
math? What are you waiting for? When will you have this figured out? Why weren't we told about this sooner (OR why didn't we listen)? And finally how do we
spread the message once the answer is found?
People are being paid millions to catch vermin and air
their dirty laundry and bad habits on reality television. I have no answers, only questions. For instance, should I have learned to
wrestle gators instead of spending all that time in college? I’m asking…
