"death by stuff"

From the Intro to EVIL PLANS:

“TO UNIFY WORK AND LOVE”

Sigmund Freud once said that in order to be truly happy in life, a human being needed to acquire two things: The capacity to work, and the capacity to love.

An EVIL PLAN is really about being able to do both at the same time.

So how do you do both at the same time?

Easy. You love what you do.

How do you love what you do?

You make the decision to do so.

The earlier in your life you make that decision, the easier your EVIL PLAN will be to pull off.

The easier it will be to actually create something.

The longer you’ve been working, the more you see this: People in their thirties and forties, who have kind of hit the wall in their career trajectory, but somehow need the money more than ever.

You know, to pay for all that “stuff”. Fancy cars, nice houses in the suburbs, golf clubs, that kinda thing.

They hate their work, but they love their “stuff”.

They say they have no choice. They have children, mortgages, responsibilities, that kinda thing.

But they also have a lot of “stuff”, which requires ever more time and money to enjoy properly, to keep the veneer from cracking.

Because the older you get, the more time and energy is needed to compensate for the fact that basically, you hate what you do. That you never liked what you do. That all along, it’s always been about the “stuff”.

Those people always get crucified, eventually. Their bosses always get rid of them, eventually.

So please decide to love what you do, the sooner the better. “Death By Stuff” is really no way to live.

[Bonus Link: Comedian George Carlin’s classic rant about “Stuff”.]