Carpe Diem

Taking time to enjoy the simple things in life…

Not enough people do this and it is a saddening trend, don’t get me wrong I’m all about good honest work, I just think you shouldn’t have to face constant abuse from your employer and peers and that you should be given a decent wage. People nowadays are just working till they die and for wages that you can barely live on.

People are like little children, they believe in these “fairy stories” that there is a better world waiting for you and that if you suffer in this world you will be rewarded in the next. I hate to burst your bubble, but you simply can’t prove that, and also, its one thing for children to believe it, but for educated adults to believe it so completely is slightly disturbing.

What if this is all that we’ve got and that when you’re gone there is nothing waiting for you, are you going to regret no working more??? No, you’re going to wish you had done more things you actually enjoy. And let’s face, most people hate their work and that’s why they need to get so pissed- to try and forget how mind numbingly boring work is.

Work is started to take away when it used to enrich your life. Not only that, but permanent work is dangerous for the mind, you’ll start to take on a “sheep” mentality and doing things that other people are doing and you will most definitely lose your ability to think critically or creatively. I have spoken to many people who work full time and once they come home from the salt mines they just switch on the television, and it’s not as though they watch shows that stimulate the mind in any way, it’s usually “reality” shows or pointless celebrity gossip!

And also if they do watch news, it will be from the mainstream media and they’re hardly objective or even accurate! They are mostly reports on such trivial and useless subjects, that they distract you from any real news. If they don’t distract you, they will get you hot and bothered about issue that normally wouldn’t matter so much, but they make sure that’s all you see and the “red mist” takes over.

People wake up and realise that it’s only a job, but I realise that with cost of living continuing to rise you have no choice but to work yourself to death, but like the famous American activist Noam Chomsky said: “The difference between work and slavery is that work is temporary”.

Well, it’s not temporary anymore, so what does that tell you.