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It Can Be the Cheapest, Most Effective Form of Therapy
Life can get pretty damn stressful.
Have you ever had one of those moments where you just stop, take a look around and wonder;
“How did it all come to this?”
One minute you’re a teenager, full of hopes and dreams, aspirations of the wonderful life that you’re going to build for yourself.
Then, in the blink of an eye, it feels like you’ve somehow been kidnapped, bundled into a DeLorean time machine, the thing accelerates to 88mph and BOOM! You’re hurled fifteen years into the future.
What the fuck just happened? Where did the time go?
You still feel like that young, optimistic teenager, but there’s something that just doesn’t seem, right.
You take another look around.
Wait a minute, this isn’t the life you once dreamed of.
Sure, you may have planned to have a family of your own, a few kids perhaps but there was no mention of being stuck in this unfulfilling 9–5 job and where did all these bills come from? So, many bills.
Then, of course, there are taxes. Working your ass off so that you can give 25%— 35% of your earnings away…