How much do you need to live well? How much stuff? How much money? Do you really, when you think about it, have time to work so much just so you can get all that stuff? Do you need more money?

A new designer clock, a new computer, new coffee grinder, new car, new skies, new clothes, new toys, new, new, new. Do you need it? Do you even really want it?

Working eight hours a day is the norm. Wight hours every day, five days a week minimum. Add to that overtime, putting in those extra hours so your boss will value you even more, so she will see just what a busy little worker bee you are. And what do you work with? What is it that you spend all this time on? For what? For whom? Why? Is it worth it? Is it worth never getting that time back? Never ever being able to chose to spend it differently? Time is fleeting, sparse, and once it is gone, it is gone. So is it worth it? Are you valued? Are you valuing the time spent working? For real, or just for show? Do you just value feeling important? Running, stressed, to meetings, flashing your Rolex, in your new suit: or is what you do really meaningful? For whom?

Ask yourself; is it worth all that work, so you can buy all that stuff? Is it worth exchanging all that time for that bit of money? Or is there some other way you would rather spend your time, your life? Think about it. Question the status quo. Don’t just accept that this is the way the world works. Yes, everyone has jobs, 40 hours a week. Everyone is tired, few find real meaning at work, everyone works, everyone lives this way, everyone has stuff, needs more stuff. This is how it works, life. Everyone does it. Well, you are not everyone. Stop and question things. What do you want?