REJECTING NORMAL
The more you love your decisions, the less you need other people to love them.
In 2015, I travelled the length of Chile, through Peru and Colombia, Mexico and up into California looking for skateparks.
Before I left, all anyone could ask me was “...but what about your job?”
Another popular comment was “...but aren’t you kind of getting too old to take off on huge adventures like this?”
The automatic reaction from society is that being in your late 20′s means getting married, having a child, living in a house and being part of that general Monday-to-Friday rat race who are all saving for a comfortable retirement.
But that's just not me. Time is a non-renewable commodity and I can't just 'get it back'. I don’t want to defer my one life until I reach retirement and I want more than just 10 or 20 years of freedom at the end of it all.
I’m pretty vocal on Instagram and Facebook about how much I love my life and people often ask me how I have so much free time to do all the shit I love so much like skateboarding, camping, travelling or whatever it is I've just posted photos of.
When I tell them straight up that I’m pursuing ideas I once thought were impossible or risky, and ultimately learning how to automate my income, they either laugh or get edgy with me. Either way - an invisible shield always comes down between us when I mention passive or residual income.
I get why it happens though. I mean, no one really wants to live out their one life on this earth working from 9-5 for 40 years, but Society has successfully scared most people into thinking any other sort of income that might be available to them is 'risky', 'unreliable' or 'a scam'.
Most people will spend their life complaining about their job, their salary, their lack of free time, only to end up unfulfilled and unhappy, because they were following some invisible set of rules their whole life. That, or they're just too scared of a change or too lazy to try anything different than the immediate solution that the status quo of society is offering. Isn't it absolutely mindblowing that these people will all let a little fear keep them from doing anything extraordinary with their life?
People are SO scared of change, but what about 40, 50 or 60 years of routine?
Now that's scary.
