[messel]

It's legit, or at least as legit as it can be coming from me. Did I come across too pompous? This is sincerely what I believe and value, although it's an old idea.

From the post: "Surviving and taking care of your family is an admirable dream in my book, but the quality of your aspirations aren’t for me to judge. I can only observe your dedication"

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[aduric]

I read your quote, but it was framed in such as way that I got the feeling that you were being self-righteous and shallow. First of all you started off with "Surviving..."

Now I don't know anyone with a family who would consider their raison d'être as "surviving."

Then you continued with "...but the quality of your aspirations aren't for me to judge". As if their aspirations were of such inferior quality that it's not even worthy of your judgement.

Anyway, maybe I'm being a bit too defensive in this case, but many people have many different reasons for doing what they do. They are motivated by money, sex, success, spirituality, family, all kinds of things, and they show dedication to them.

Without sounding too philosophical, life should be lived as balanced as possible and time should be given to a reasonable amount of disparate things like work, love, play or (heaven forbid) even nothing!