> i just feel like wealth and fame is a sigh op this is the cold, hard, truth. you may choose a life of wealth and leisure at the cost of your soul, or you may choose a life of contentment and love at the cost of your wealth and leisure. besides which, the likelihood of you attaining enough wealth to live in comfort the rest of your life is at worst entirely unattainable and at best only attainable at the cost of everything else in life. so you will end up rich, alone, and completely incapable of connecting with anyone who didn't do what you did in life. i have a home in the country with land, a wife, a pet, and friends and family who actually care about my moderately-sperg ass. yet, a variety of things have caused me to ponder suicide for my failure to become what i can rationally recognize as something i could never be, but nonetheless felt i had to become. it's a weird fucking existence in this country. at the least, i can stop now and then, take stock, and realize the things i spent years wanting were entirely absurd, not worth it, and that i was conditioned to want them by forces in league with this government. meanwhile, what i actually have attained through commitment, patience, and sacrifice, would be considered not just success, but the american dream by others.
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