Men should never marry, here's why.

[greenmedic88]

curl-6 said:

greenmedic88 said:

This may reflect a failing of Western societal values if it's considered depressing or tragic that one will never live in a mansion and drive a car that costs about five times what the average person earns in a year. 

But... there is a glimmer of hope if individuals such as yourself can still appreciate that which you have and presumably see the essentials that really matter. If everyone lived in a castle and flew around via private helicopter it wouldn't exactly be a mark of success or superiority. 

Well, I guess what I was trying to convey was that it's easy to make one's self feel like crap by focussing on the things we don't have, while overlooking all the things we do have. 

There is no end to the former line of thinking. 

Those who live in mansions and drive lambos envy the guy who owns a yacht and a fleet of luxury cars with an airplane hanger to house them along with his prvately owned Gulfstream. That guy wishes he owned a private island on which to house his hangar. 

This is not say that people shouldn't have aspirations or aspire to do greater things that yield greater rewards, because I believe they absolutely should, but the rewards should follow the achievements which should be inspiration and reason for those aspirations.

Of course, aspiring to be the greatest gym teacher ever is not going to yield the same benefits as being the most prescient hedge fund manager or most innovative captain of industry. Or the most successful dictator.