It’s becoming more prevalent.
Everything I see, keeps reminding me of the depressing bourgeois lifestyle that is so easy to fall into, and that majority of society lives. Not all, but majority.
I see this lifestyle choice of ‘safety’ in my mum. A job attained through a university degree, that pays well and pays the bills. From there work 9-5, 5 days a week- everynow and then indulging in food. Escaping via holidays and travelling. Escaping via television- envying the character’s lives, or the actor’s life or the actors body.
Constantly looking at others, on facebook, in magazines- calling this “rest and relax time, off work”. Having a day job that is inadequate and spending the remains of the day admiring others whose lives are fulfilling. Creating a distinction between time for reality and romanticism.
It is a life easy to fall into, and my biggest fear. I do not want to spend 40 years of my life doing this...And chasing a life that isn’t this- is bloody hard and precarious. The life I want requires incredible self drive, there is no specific path that I can follow along with others, and if I work hard whilst on that path be guaranteed a result at the end.
It requires being successful in aspects of: marketing, networking/socialising, being the best ‘product’ externally (physical) and internally (talent, and amazing craft).
It has taken be six months to really articulate this. And the pressure of the stakes and time is overwhelming.
Anything worth having is hard to get right?