Not all who wander are lost!

I’m young and I have no responsibilities. I also live in a society that puts me under constant pressure to keep up and survive. Things are not as simple as yesteryear. I value life and the simple things, not what society dictates I should value. I have been put on this earth to find happiness and that is what I intend to do. I hate to rush, to have constant stress and to be amongst people who are negative. My life is my life and I choose how I live it. I choose to wander.

I have a problem with the way years of societal conditioning has made people lose touch with what is really important in life. What is important is to enjoy every second of this fleeting life we have here on earth, not to work and stress our whole lives to achieve materialistic objects such as a big houses and nice cars. Those nice things that you spend the majority of your life trying to achieve through hard work and stress will eventually become irrelevant.  

I see it every day; people who are now old, have all they have worked for but are sick of it and want less to stress about. So they sell these nice objects and opt for retirement somewhere quiet and beautiful with the bare minimum, if they can. Or on the other side of the coin, old age hits and they are thrown into an old age home, thereby losing all they have worked their whole lives for anyway. Sad and not nice to think about, is it? Society is warped. They have murdered true joy and we find ourselves in a generation that is so completely lost it is ridiculous.

We are all told working hard for a career was important so that you can earn loads of money and be happy.  Yes, sure, I know we all have to earn money to survive as nothing is free but no wad of cash will buy you true, lasting joy. I refuse to waste my life in a job I hate so that I can buy nice things. I will always make sure that whatever I do in life makes me happy. I refuse to have regrets.  As I said, I am young and have no responsibilities, so it is easy for me to say this but for as long as I don’t have children to look after, I will wander through life. When we wander, we slow down and are able to find joy in the little things in life that we often overlook when we constantly look to money to make us happy. Something as simple as a butterfly should put a smile on your face.

My parents always give me grief about my laid back attitude but I am happy with the way I live. I wish they could understand that not all who wander are lost and that I will always have a successful life as long as I have joy.

I love this, it gives me inspiration. Taken from http://www.scoop.it/t/social-learning-group-coaching