calvin and hobbes

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered eccentric, if not subversive.

Ambition is only understood if it's rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success.

Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake.

A person who abandons his career in order to stay at home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential.

As if a job title are the sole measure of human worth.

You'll be told in a hundred of ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing and never be satisfied with where you are, and what you're doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out and I guarantee you'll hear about them.

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but still allowed......

.....and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.


-- Bill Watterson