VACATIONS AND PAYCHECKS ARE CRUEL

I just got back from Kanopolis for a Memorial weekend camping trip. After which it kind of hit me that vacations and paychecks are actually bittersweet, leaning more towards bitter. Your slavers let you off of your chain a couple weeks out of the year to go live a life as humans were meant to. Oh gee thanks. The real problem is that you have to come back. You might have a blast on your time off but it has to end. Then you're stuck with the pain of tasting freedom and bliss for most of your days. We go to a job that we can barely stand and deal with people we could definitely live without just for some spare change and a few days of rest. Fifty vomit inducing weeks a year to be throw scraps that are just enough to survive.

On that note, what are all those bags of pennies you labor for being spent on? The biggest of course would be your mortgage or rent. You have to have this so you can sleep, eat and avoid the elements until you can get back to work. Next on the list would be your vehicle. But we all know that it's primary use is as your means of going back and forth between your work prison and your slave cell at home. Then you have to factor in your food, utilities and medical expenses because you need to stay healthy. If you don't stay up to snuff you can't or won't be able to work, then the looming debt monster will get you. Lastly is all the fringe expenses like TV's, stereos, computers, games, etc. These are just mind numbing distractions that help keep you mind from wincing due to your meaningless existence.

When you break it all down and see what we actually live for, it's quite sickening. We are bred into a commercialistic society where we live only to be a cog in the machine. This is why I don't get excited about vacations or when I get handed my paycheck. I fake a smile because I know it's the only perks that I get. But I'm not fooled. I know they're just treats for the dancing bear. Now go put your little red hat back on and jump onto your tricycle, here comes the organ grinder.