We pay our bills. Most of the time.
In spite of the fact that both of us work full time, there isn't a pile of money in savings that gets bigger with each passing month. A house payment, one car payment, and we're lucky in that we both have health insurance. We're getting by, barely.
Yet apparently, I live in a very affluent society. And there are probably 3 billion people who would gladly trade places, and for good reasons. Well, there are pros and cons, and it depends on what you look at.
Knowing what little I do about design and packaging and paper printing and ink, it's disturbing how much energy and resources go simply into the things that we throw away. At least 1 garbage sack every two days, ..at least. All kinds of stuff.
Every day we're eating food that costs less than the packaging it comes in. It's all so wasteful, empty and arrogant.
There are probably 4 or 5 people working their hands to the bone in third world countries just to support my lifestyle, just to support me and my wife in our endeavor to break even at the end of every month, ...it's this big rolling cycle of extraction, deforestation, strip mining and gluttony and garbage cans and pollution that leaves everybody screwed. ..minus a few multinational corporations who are doing just fine, which by the way if I ever want to make money, I should heavily invest in.
Soon I'll have a daughter, and won't have time to give second thought to such things.
She'll grow up and be an glowing optimist, just like her dad.
