Im 22y/o, currently working in a company as a graphic artist. I do my work, 8hours a day, 5 days a week. Im well compensated, people here are nice, lots of extra curricular activities such as sports fest, Team Building, Parties, Free Food etc. I get to have my paycheck every 15th and end of the month, and with that I can buy things I want or enjoy cheap and simple pleasures in life. But what is life, really?

"Is having your paycheck regularly, enough?"

I often ask my self that question. What's happening to me like many other people employed is like running on a wheel like rats. Running constantly... Running endlessly... Running where there is no point, no destination.. Just running. Everything just happens again and again. So is this what we call "Life"? Really?

Life for me is achieving happiness, I achieve happiness when I get to be with the people I love, go to places I love and do the things I love, and to be able to do that, I need TIME.

People get to have an equal share of 24hours per day. 24 hours to play the game called life. And each day that passes, is a day closer to weaker bones, aching joints, gray hair, wrinkled skin, memory gap, etc.

So consider this equation: 24hours – (8hours of work + 3hours of travel + 30 minutes of bath + 1.5hours of eat + 6hours of sleep) = 5 personal hours. Almost 13hours of my day are spent in going to work and working.

So this scenario happened in my system:

Myself: “So why work?”
Me: “You always know the answer, its simple: You work because if You don’t, You can’t have the money and when You don’t have the money You cant do the things You want, not doing the things You want is like death.”
Myself: “Hmm.. do you think so?”
I: “I don’t think so, why work? Can I have money without work?”
Myself “hmmm.. nice question… is it possible?”

And so I left myself a question, “How?”

-" Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy time and time can buy freedom and freedom IS happiness. "-

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