/lit/ - Literature

>>6480545
>whereas someone who 'lives himself out' to his hearts content without placing his actual life in comparison with some imaginary alternative will be more likely to play around joyfully, like a child.
I don't have to imagine it, I just need to look at other people who structured life differently, or who have other starting conditions, and have already reached something that, as I see it, want too.
>You can make changes as you please, you don't need to plan some sort of imaginary person or life in advance that you wish to become.
If you want to reach a goal that can't be reached immediatenly, like being good at X/being in the position to Y in 5 years, then the way to reach that goal must look into the future and have some steps.
This might be applying careerism to existence itself, as you say, but I feel the opposite is necessarily boring.
I could try to life a life of reading books and hooking up, but even if, then the time I must (necessarily) spend to support me via money can be optimized and as soon I'm into the "how to optimize" thought process I set some sort of career goals.