[mmartinson]

Y'all should enjoy drawing pictures and making mediocre music without worrying about how that relates to success or money. Your career is important, but it's only one part of a good life. Things that are enjoyable but unproductive often have a way of building skills and character that can later help you in unexpected ways.

[annyeonghada]

It may seem like 14 years old is "too soon" for being preoccupied about one's livelihood but, based on my experience, it is certainly healthier than waking up as a 27 y/o man and finding that the perception of your personality has been built on a lie, well intentioned as it may be.

The common view we have of teenagers, as devoid of any agency, vastly underestimates them, not only that, it excludes them for the "res publica": the participation to the public life, exclusion that emerges then as lack of maturity. All the acting out and "teenage angst", it is my opinion, is actually a call for responsibility and participation, and it is by this participation, and the subsequent confrontation with the messy reality of life that make you realize your limitation and allows you to grow out of your childish dream if they are, indeed, childing. This dampening of expectations is not a negative thing: it's what has allowed civilization to go on: almost nobody wanted to be a farmer. Keeping the door open for the odd wind of luck while living a pragmatic, if not as colorful as one's fantasies, life is the more realistic and healthy way of organize one future while the "think about this later" is a recipe for regret and depression caused by the mismatch between what it is and what I wished it were.

[zikduruqe]

> Y'all should enjoy drawing pictures and making mediocre music without worrying about how that relates to success or money.

Or whether you have to have health insurance. If having health insurance wasn't tied to employment, just think of the opportunities that could open up.

[_chu1]

Talk about free healthcare if you want but in execution it always sucks so bad people end up buying private healthcare anyways

[jason0597]

I think that's an exaggeration of how it works in Europe, it is not the case that it "sucks so bad people end up buying private healthcare anyways"

[senko]

Hello from Europe.

[colinsane]

of the basic necessities, health insurance is perhaps the easiest to acquire as a financially strapped person these days, due to Medicaid (assuming you’re US). shelter, on the other hand…

[_gmax0]

Given the state of the world, naturally there is greater pressure to survive, requiring one to focus on the short-term: securing capital or success, which in this context I interpret as 'fame' and perhaps implies capital. If this is the model under which we operate, indifference towards this pressure indicates to me that a person is either unwittingly/willfully ignorant, or has a value system that prioritizes internal satisfaction.

[_chu1]

That's true but you can't spend your entire life doing things without worrying about success or money else you live a fantasy.