1) Our society uses a system of 'Preparation for Life’. In other words, it's always focused in the preparation & never actually gets ‘there’ (whatever ‘there’ is).

2) For example, Schooling begins with Grade Levels.
Always preparing for the next year. Pre-School, Kindergarten, 1st grade, middle school, high school, maybe college, maybe even a grad student, all to just ‘Get Out into the World’.

3) You’ve been trained for this moment & now you’ve arrived. Then you’re out in the world at your first sales meeting & the same thing is going on again. They want you to make that Quota. And if you do make it, they give you an even higher Quota.

4) Then come 45 years old, maybe you become VP & it dawns on you that ‘You Have Arrived’, whilst having a certain sense of having been cheated… conditioned to be in desperate need of a future.

5) So the final goal this culture prepares us for is called ‘Retirement’. You’ll be a senior citizen & supposedly have the wealth & leisure to do what you’ve always wanted… but at the same time you’ll have impotence, a rotten prostrate, false teeth, & no energy.

6) The whole thing from beginning to end is a hoax so you might as well do what makes you happy.
#AlanWatts