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Snusmumrikken wrote:
Don't let your job dictate your personality then 

Claire wrote:
youre talking to an american we've been brainwashed into thinking our jobs are our lives 

Claire wrote:
youre talking to an american we've been brainwashed into thinking our jobs are our lives 

Barbarella wrote:
I think its more than just brainwashing, more like, desperately roped into it under the threat of homelessness lol

Snusmumrikken wrote:
I have to use my credit card most of the time and I don't like it but I'm like nah it is what it is, I still have control. I am trying to focus on things that make me feel better, I like going for walks and just looking at things, enjoying the small things. Recently it has been the snow melting and sun and all that, it's nice. And free. 

Claire wrote:
well i mean more the placing our value on our jobs. and our personality.

i had heard in china when you introduce yourself youd be like 'hi im claire im jacks daughter and dougs wife' like you identify yoursself based on your relationships to other people. but in america id be like 'hi im claire im a secretary'

like thats not who i am. my job is not who i am so why do americans do that as our identity.

i want to say 'hi im claire im into anime and art and movies' 

Claire wrote:
well i mean more the placing our value on our jobs. and our personality.

i had heard in china when you introduce yourself youd be like 'hi im claire im jacks daughter and dougs wife' like you identify yoursself based on your relationships to other people. but in america id be like 'hi im claire im a secretary'

like thats not who i am. my job is not who i am so why do americans do that as our identity.

i want to say 'hi im claire im into anime and art and movies' 

Anachronism wrote:
Yeah 

Like, I think my value as a person is to be a hard worker. I lack a career and make shit money, hence I'm a failure, and I'm so upset I didnt start one earlier, to have one is better than none ever but it still feels like a flaw and irreversible mistake and I wonder if I'd have more potential if my career started at 22-24 like it was "supposed" to 

I mean I'll pick up overtime not even for the money, but because I'm lazy if I dont, my value is tied to working a lot, I feel hardened by constantly working 

Maybe that's why I feel empty, what I do and how I rank in society is attracted to my identity 

Barbarella wrote:
I see what you mean now.

that being said with as much as we have to work to survive I can see how folks may not have much else going on outside their job

Snusmumrikken wrote:
Happiness is a temporary emotion <-

Snusmumrikken wrote:
Happiness is a temporary emotion, if you aspire to be constantly happy you set yourself up for failure and you'll be less happy. 

That being said, despite of my suffering(tm) I am happy. 

Junia wrote:
Ok, I am just going to say it.
I think I have an actual obligation to say this.

The real reason why pretty much ... NO ONE is happy is very simple. WE live in a dystopia. Most people think they are free thinkers, that is bullcrap. They are slaves to the real masters in the world. Illuminati is ruling the world, satanists if you want to call it like that, and they own the rest of the humanity which lets itself to be owned. Very few people understand this on a deep level (I am not one of them but I am working on it), so very few people are actually woke in a real sense. You have no idea how much contempt the rulers of the world have for you, and how much they actually laugh at you. And the worst thing is, most people to some degree let themselves to be ruled, because it is actually a real choice. That is karma. No wonder the world is going under.