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5 Day Working Bleak.

There is a bunch of things in life I dont understand.

• I dont understand how a human can mistreat an animal
• I dont understand how and why a human feels it necesary to hurt or kill another human
• I dont understand how many humans feel that global and environmental issues are not their responsibility
• I dont understand why people find money so important and let it control their lives and actions.

But the main thing I dont understand is the mentality of working. I am 28 years old, I have a mortgage and a daughter and I am the sole breadwinner in my house. I have at least 20 years of work ahead of me before I can contemplate retiring. I get up at 6am, I leave at 6:25am, I get to work a little before 8 and I stay there until 5. I get home around 6:30 and I have about 3 hours before I go to bed so that I can start it all again. And I do this FIVE TIMES A WEEK!

So, over the course of a week, I spend 5 x 3hrs travelling (15hrs), I spend 5 x 9hrs at work (45hrs) and 7 x 8hrs sleeping (56hrs) which leaves me with 47hrs a week of spare time. 15 of that I am too tired to do anything anyway.

I currently live for the weekends, so I can sleep in and spend time with my family. I spend the whole week wishing it was friday afternoon. I have panic attacks when I think of how many more years I have to go before I am in a financially stable enough position to do away with work, because by then all my children will have grown up and I wont be the young virile, agile person I am now (..kinda).

Dont get me wrong. I love my job, I love the company I work for and the people I work with. But I just cant help but think that this is seriously retarded (and by 'retarded', I mean slowed down, backwards - the true sense of the word).

I keep having to ask myself 'whats the point?'. I know what the point is. The point is that we live in a unit near the beach. We eat good food. We have a nice(ish) car. Could we do it all and work half the time? Absolutely not. To live and work half the time, we would need to make incredible sacrifices which we dont want to make. But why should we need to make sacrifices to live a healthy and prosperous life without working all week? It just doesnt make sense to me. Thinking about it makes me get hot flushes and panicky...

I have always been a non-conformist. I dont follow the crowd. I dont make it a habit to do this, it just tends to happen naturally. I always ask 'why?' instead of just saying 'yes'. But I feel like I am losing this battle. Maybe its time to conform. To say 'yes' and to not question what god-knows-how-many billions of other people do each and every day. Why should I be different?

If you have any ideas on an alternative life, I'd love to hear about them.