societal expectations are out of control. it's almost illegal to say you don't care about a sucessful career in the corporate world. because what other type of occupation is acceptable? perhaps it's the WASP family background I come from; example:
why in the hell would you get an MA if you could get an MBA?
because i have no desire to be a CEO or the like.
why the hell not?
seriously, these two perspectives don't really conicide. and any disscussion around them leads to a roadblock.
i like the idea that societal ideal needs to change to become a place where people feel comfortable and supported succeeding in whatever they're most passionate about and talented in. weather that's being the best stripper you can be, the best politician you can be (lots of comparisons between those two occupations, but that's for another post), the best teacher you can be, the best artist you can be, or whatever.
what's the point if you do well at it and you don't give two shits? you're living in a shell where you function in the expected way, but you're removed from yourself. When talent and ambition coincide you find a place where you not only do well, but you want to do well and it makes you happy. I don't know if that place exists for everyone in our current society. I think many people like to beleive it does, and believe that they're in that place. But I think it's probably a fantasy. Because dreams live at night and vanish during the day. Stifled by our product driven, time crunched society, dreams have no place to flourish during the day.
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