Let's face it, we'd all rather be couch-potatoes relaxing than busting our chops doing hard work! We'd all rather be lazy and sleep in - what a luxury. That's why we all love weekends and holidays, right? Of course, there are just times when the 'ends' - the necessities of life - justify the hard work 'means'. I mean lots of people go to all sorts of hardships seeking buried treasure, like say at Oak Island, or diving for sunken Spanish treasure ships, to traipsing after the Lost Dutchman Mine. Get-rich-quick is a 'why' motive if ever there was one! Then too the hard work in building your own home or ploughing the fields because you need to fill your belly is understandable. There's an obvious positive motive in the construction of bridges, roads, tunnels, railroads, airports and any and all other infrastructure that services transport. There's incentive to built arenas for sport (like the Roman Colosseum or Yankee Stadium), since sport is an activity that we like to participate in, even if just as a spectator. But then too, even when it comes to the necessities, one tends to do the minimum required to achieve the desired results. I mean digging a grave 7000 years ago wasn't easy, but the motive, avoiding the stink and decaying visuals and health hazards of a decomposing body was probably a reasonable trade-off, especially if the corpse had some sentimental value. On the other hand, they didn't go to additional effort and dig a 12 foot grave when 6 feet under sufficed! That's true in modern times as well. So there are limits to 'why' and motivations.
Here's what the situation looks like to me: Like, I said I graduated college and moved back in my with parents. No one expected that I should find a full-time job immediately after graduating, but we all figured it would only be a matter of months. Actually, it didn't even take me that long. I found a pretty good job that I really liked and was in my field of study by July of the year I graduated. We all thought this was great. I would be making $30,000 to start, but I had full benefits and all the wonderful things that go with full-time employment.
This is a very difficult cosmology to accept, especially since our current civilisation is only about 8,000 years old. Were there many other human civilisations before this one?
There are numerous examples, like crop circles, that are apparently useless constructions, yet which required getting our all-loving couch-potato butts off said couches and into 'blood, sweat and tears' mode. For example, the Nazca Lines in Peru. Nazca Lines (Peru): The 'how', as in how the Nazca Lines were made; the construction of these famous pictograms is a no-brainer. Any archaeological text will easily explain the 'how'. The 'why' question on the other hand, however, is not so easily solvable. Why go to any amount of time, effort and energy to construct pictures in the dirt that can only been seen and appreciated from the air? This was a time when there was no ways and means of any contemporaries of those Nazca Line construction workers being able to view those pictures from the air. It would appear to be wasted effort. For a peoples living in a harsh environment like the Nazca Plains, efforts just could not be wasted on the frivolous. Nevertheless, the blood, sweat and tears to draw the pictograms were nonetheless provided. Why?
I tried to stay for a couple of months, but after the first of the year I moved back in with my parents. I simply couldn't afford it. I tried to modify my loan repayment schedule and applied for income sensitive repayments, but no matter how we tried to adjust it nothing would work for me.
I told my own story here because I wanted to highlight one of the main reasons many people are still living at home well into their 20s. Yes, there are other reasons, but the cost of living is a huge factor. Entry level jobs simply are not paying enough to keep up with the record levels of student loan debt and the skyrocketing cost of living.
Personally, I feel embarrassed to admit that I still live with my parents. I'd much rather be out on my own, and I'm sure most people in my position feel the same. I'm just happy I have a job to pay my student loan bills and give my parents some money each month.
Here's what the situation looks like to me: Like, I said I graduated college and moved back in my with parents. No one expected that I should find a full-time job immediately after graduating, but we all figured it would only be a matter of months. Actually, it didn't even take me that long. I found a pretty good job that I really liked and was in my field of study by July of the year I graduated. We all thought this was great. I would be making $30,000 to start, but I had full benefits and all the wonderful things that go with full-time employment.
This is a very difficult cosmology to accept, especially since our current civilisation is only about 8,000 years old. Were there many other human civilisations before this one?
There are numerous examples, like crop circles, that are apparently useless constructions, yet which required getting our all-loving couch-potato butts off said couches and into 'blood, sweat and tears' mode. For example, the Nazca Lines in Peru. Nazca Lines (Peru): The 'how', as in how the Nazca Lines were made; the construction of these famous pictograms is a no-brainer. Any archaeological text will easily explain the 'how'. The 'why' question on the other hand, however, is not so easily solvable. Why go to any amount of time, effort and energy to construct pictures in the dirt that can only been seen and appreciated from the air? This was a time when there was no ways and means of any contemporaries of those Nazca Line construction workers being able to view those pictures from the air. It would appear to be wasted effort. For a peoples living in a harsh environment like the Nazca Plains, efforts just could not be wasted on the frivolous. Nevertheless, the blood, sweat and tears to draw the pictograms were nonetheless provided. Why?
I tried to stay for a couple of months, but after the first of the year I moved back in with my parents. I simply couldn't afford it. I tried to modify my loan repayment schedule and applied for income sensitive repayments, but no matter how we tried to adjust it nothing would work for me.
I told my own story here because I wanted to highlight one of the main reasons many people are still living at home well into their 20s. Yes, there are other reasons, but the cost of living is a huge factor. Entry level jobs simply are not paying enough to keep up with the record levels of student loan debt and the skyrocketing cost of living.
Personally, I feel embarrassed to admit that I still live with my parents. I'd much rather be out on my own, and I'm sure most people in my position feel the same. I'm just happy I have a job to pay my student loan bills and give my parents some money each month.