Cause I dont have time to enjoy life now with limited vacation and money?
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Don't need a psychologist to tell me it's money
I was just (shower) thinking to myself that humans must be all the chimps that couldn’t help but chase some random thing out of the jungle and into the plains/Savannah/desert and were lucky or smart enough to survive. All while the other chimps were happy to chill.
I think all other animals are also anxious, in their case to find food, shelter and not get eaten
so are most humans, certainly many billion. 9 million of us a year die of starvation.
As to anxious, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Iran, Ukrainian etc. having bombs dropped on you. Fuck, you can be fishing in the Caribbean and some asshole sends a missile to make your day shitty
From my understanding it's not that they left the jungle, rather the jungle dried up around them over time.
That makes sense! My shower thought was no more than a brain fart and was at most symbolic or allegorical about human nature.
Ya, humans always have to have more, it will be our undoing, greed is what is going to take out our species.
greed is what is going to take out ~~our~~ most species.
I have ADHD which makes me live every moment as if it were my last. Suck it, article!
Because right now I'm tired and a nap sounds like the most amazing thing I could be spending my time on. Laying, being still, in a slightly chill room, with a sheet or blanket.... it's just so comfortable.
Nah, wifey and me don't save for "later". We retired like 30yrs ago after having tried some jobs. It was just not our thing. Will we drown in money in "official" retirement (if we even reach the age of 67) Probably not, but we already lived that life so far and it seemed like a better deal than saving a lot just to maybe enjoy it somewhere in the distant future. Also we were fit enough to actually enjoy all the time. Traveling, hobbies, chilling...
My dad worked his ass off, spent most of it while doing so, ended up with nothing and didn't know what to do with all the sparetime after being retired. Died a year of boredom later. I never wanted to end that sad and pathetic.
Probably never going to retire, can't afford it and I probably won't live that long. I have retirement accounts but they're more of long term savings for emergency needs. No way I'd be able to save up the tens of thousands of dollars I'd need to catch up even if I got a higher paying job.
I feel this. been unemployed for two years now and older. Can't wait to be berated for not saving enough for retirement. Its really getting to a why bother point or really past it.
"The obsession's in the chasing, and not the apprehending - the pursuit, you see, and never the arrest." - Tom Waits
The lady in the thumbnail looks cozy as fuck.
I just bought a quart of coffee ice cream on Friday for the week. I finished it Saturday night and loved every spoonful of its soft creamy goodness.
assuming you can afford to "save" that way.