• TokyoCalling@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Overwork and the pursuit of wealth is detrimental to you and your relationships. Earning enough for a simple life and then stopping allows time to be a decent human.

    I walk an average of three hours a day. My young adult children ask me to go with them to the movies. My wife works enough and no more. We split the chores and have few resentments. The crows along the river swoop down when I pass by. I stop and feed them peanuts.

    I learned this by becoming aware of just how little it served me and my family to really put in the hours and take every opportunity that came my way.