The other option of staying and flourishing via the system just does not appeal to me. Play-pretend of what we have seen others do for generations. Go work, go home, eat, sleep, long for something yet unknown.

My thoughts on the system are that it uses the trauma and the scars on a worker-bees psyche without them knowing it. For me personally, the idea of achievement in a professional sense or climbing the ladders is just the need to prove something internal or external.

Mom, look I'm there, I'm there!

But the balloon of capitalist-individualist world is stretched so far that it is screeching. It's about to burst in all our faces and it's time to look for alternative ways of living together and talk about it.

It makes it far more complex when there are obstacles and/or bonds created and I don't want to dismiss those.

The other way in this dichotomy (?) is the way of creating your life the oldschool way as you go: having goals daily of finding food and shelter, having to busk to find some moneys to survive, honing your skills that would help you on the way MOVING! AND meeting everything and everyone with a fresh eye. So much beauty in this idea, and then of course the struggles that come with it. But one can get through and dark is needed for light to be there. Just don't subside to drugs and drinking.

Ps. I've been on the road, biking, walking, hitchhiking, and been also living not a vagabond lifestyle but a rather homeless one being depressed since I was constantly looking for more or less death. Now being home for a while and much better mentally. Sorry if too dark for someone. It's to say I am indeed romanticising it from the safe harbor of my home right now. But I also am not.

Props go out to those on their feet and doing it daily.