"Lie flat." What would my life have been like? [View all]

---- another of my Sunday night musings.

I guess it was in the N.Y. Times, an article about some young adult, somewhere in China. He was advising his peers not to enter the workforce. Instead, lie flat. (Stay home in bed.). It is now illegal to tell people in China to lie flat.... Seems if it catches on, it will ruin the Chinese economy which depends on people willing to work long hours for low wages.

So I got to thinking about my job. I've been retired for 16 years. House is paid for, Hyundai also. And there's some money left over at the end of the month. But was it all worth it? Looking back, what did I accomplish?

I wasn't too good at it. But at first, I used to care about the job... until I didn't. Then I just did it because I thought I needed money to be a part of society and do what everybody else is doing.

I used to spend time at work thinking about how much better my life would be, spending summers in fields, watching butterflies. Or fall, winter and springs, just hiking trails in the New Jersey hills. That's what I do now.

Some of the lower paid kids today are lying flat. A post today on D.U. tells about employees in a chain, Hot Topic, walked off their jobs for low pay. Good on them.

My granddaughter is lying flat. She is 23 and never held a job. Never earned a penny. Her parents support her. I worry about her. But maybe she worries about me.