To me it seems like lack of money says you must do these things. To earn money you must get a job. To stay at a job you must get a place to live to stay popular at a job a lot of pressure it put on your to marry and have kids.

I would love to hop on a plane to Europe and commune with monks but no moola to do that.

I would seriously like to know what makes the "muggles" tick. From a young age I had friends that got married at 17 and all they wanted in the world was a family and friends who would drink with them at some horrible little watering hole every Saturday night. And they would do whatever it took to have that. It was a shock to me the moment I found out my sister was one of these and the time she spent not doing this was all biding her time until she could.

I don't think we are seriously able to live our lives as we wish. There is some truth to that but for the most part circumstances conspire and your probably not going to get all of what you want no matter what your choice is.

A really good movie on this was "Ghost World".