I would say 95% of what society says you should want, is crap. Like what Jamie says, but I see that 90% of people believe it and buy into the society loop.
There's the work->earn->consume->work loop that's just insane. You work to pay for things you don't need so you feel better temporarily in order to go back to work.
There's the idea that you decide when you are 20 what you are going to do the next 50 years, after you've been an adult for a whole 2 minutes, relatively. I still say people don't really become adults until they are in their late to mid 20s, with rare exceptions.
And there's the pressure from society to go for security and wealth. You need to do certain things in order to survive, and protect your future. I see it as a load of bull. Your life slips away while you struggle to protect the unprotectable, all the while running the same old treadmill and competing in contests that aren't worthy.
If this all makes you feel a little lackluster and kind of apathetic, then it's not suprising, and you aren't alone.
The tricky question is: How do you get off the bandwagon? How do you get off the beaten path and take a different road? How can you use your strengths and talents to do what you love and what you most connect with? That's a question that only you can answer, but until you do it, you aren't really living.
I know that not everyone can be movie stars and astronauts, but why not you? There's plenty of people aspiring to be on the bottom rung of society and run the rat race like everyone else, so the top of the ladder is relatively free. Come play.
