Author: alifeonyourterms.com
Date: 2015-09-25
Publisher: Unknown

Let's Be Practical – A Life on Your Terms

alifeonyourterms.com  • September 25, 2015

Why don’t you find what you love and make a living off your passion? I have a family to take care of. I need to be practical.

Why don’t you travel for a few months before going to grad school? I can’t waste money on travel when I have to pay for grad school. I need to be practical.

Why don’t you at least try to achieve that big lofty goal/dream of yours? I can’t get caught up in ideals when I need to be practical.

On and on and on the story goes.

Ok then sparky. Let’s be practical.

Lets choose to spend 80% of our waking existence working in a job that’s about as stimulating as watching an earth worm take a shit. It’s more practical than risking your precious financial security for a little while to spend 80% of your life doing something that excites you.

That’s practical.

Or, let’s choose to teach our children that life isn’t meant to be fun or enjoyed. Let’s teach them that they have to be practical and deal with jobs they hate because it’s the only way to ‘pay the bills.’ Let’s teach them to be miserable like we are.

That’s practical.

Actually, I have a better idea. Let’s get so caught up in financial security that we spend our entire lives trying to maintain a standard of living that has nothing to do with our happiness and nothing to do with our success.

That’s definitely practical.

Better yet, let’s be sure to destroy our health, sense of well-being  and, while we’re at it, let’s destroy our souls in order to live in four bedroom houses and work in places we despise, for bosses we hate, with people we don’t really care all that much about, and for a purpose we don’t actually believe in.

Now we’re getting to the heart of practicality!

Wait a minute! May I present the crème de la crème of practicality. Let’s spend the majority of our only life unhappy so we can feign happiness while taking false pleasure in the respite of torture for the fraction of time we have left over.

I don’t know about you, but practicality sounds f#cking horrible. As a matter of fact, I would rather not exist than live a faux life filled with practicality, muted sounds, lifeless action and dull colors.

This is my life for god’s sake. My life!

The time I get to spend living is the only possession I really have. Why would I spend my only life being practical and miserable, when I could just as easily spend it being impractical and happy?

So take your practicality and shove it. I don’t want to have anything to do with it. I have a life to live, people to love, adventures to experience, pain to learn from, and happiness to enjoy.

I’m far too busy living to be practical.

But hey. Let me know how it goes for you ok? I’m sure you’ll get practically everything you ever wanted and more.

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