The Traditional Job: The Silent Thief of Our Lives

We spend our early years dreaming. We dream of becoming free, traveling, building, creating something unforgettable. But soon life’s wheel catches us and puts us in a long queue, where jobs are distributed like postponed dreams.

We wake up every morning to catch a specific hour, and we end our days counting the few hours of sleep remaining. We become prisoners of routine, exchanging our days for the salary at the end of the month, postponing everything important: meeting a friend, time with family, reading a book, even ourselves… all postponed to a “later time” that never comes.

The traditional job not only steals our time but also drains our souls of the joy of experience and choice. It makes us fear change, fear poverty, so we cling to it even as it depletes the best in us.

We live in anticipation of vacation, we endure for the sake of the weekend, we dream of retirement like someone dreams of a drop of water in the desert. And we don’t realize that we are losing the journey itself.