The title may seem like a lousy copy of one's pursuit of a perfect life. Far from it. It is the pursuit of a bummer to live a comfortable life. I had a thought the other day, when I was really fed up with everything about life and was terribly fatigued from doing too many things. How nice if I can just relax and not do anything. I mean to sustain myself I need to work. Even to be alive costs money where one would expect to live is a basic human right. Obviously in a capitalist world it is not. To eat, you need to pay. To sleep you need to pay...well if you want a roof over your head. So think of it like this, just to sit in your own home, you need to pay for every minute, be it the rent or the 30 year mortgage. And if that was not enough, there's the bills.
So I got to thinking, isn't there anywhere I can live to not have to care about any of these things? One thought that came to mind was like in Into The Wild, you go out into the wilderness and live off the land. But then I enjoy the company of people too (occasionally) so that is not really a viable option. And truth be told, I am never that much an adventurous person. I mean I don't think I can distinguish between a perfectly edible mushroom and one that would cause me to keel over and choke on my tongue in 30 seconds flat. Also, I have no idea to hunt for animal, skin them and eat them, nor do I know how to find suitable shelter in the wild, not can I fish. If I were in the movie Cast Away, it would have been a really short movie. It would be of a man landing on an island disoriented, walking around for several hours, getting hungry, walking aimlessly to find something to eat, give up and then wrapping his arms around his legs and start rocking back and forth. After that I would just get faint from the heat, roll over, faint and die of dehydration. At the end of the day, the wilderness is just too much hard work.
Okay another thought is I could go to prison. This I believe has a few more pluses than the wilderness idea. Firstly, in prison you get served food and you get a bed to sleep in, free of charge! You can sit there doing nothing whole day and no one could care less! Secondly, you need to get caught to go to prison. So, simply go rob a bank or steal a huge was of cash from a rich person, they don't need that much money anyways. IF you don't get caught, then great! You're all the richer for failing at your actual objective of getting caught and getting sent to prison. It's a win-win situation. But then there is also the down side. In prison, the people are not likely to be your typical Tom , Dick and Harry. You are in prison after all, and there are there for a proper reason. Not like your lala-land reason of wanting to live a piss easy life. So from all the TV I have seen, prison may not be such a pleasant experience.
All in all, prison and the wilderness may not be such good ideas after all. I shall think of more alternatives to this great paradox of life (That I should work to live comfortably?!? Ridonkulous!!!) I shall get back to you on this matter. Making fairy tale arguments is a strenuous undertaking.
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