jleane - 11:03 pm on Feb 13, 2008 (gmt 0)

Oh dear, I had predicted a post like this somewhere down the line, but I hadn't expected it to be the first response!

I do appreciate your advice (even though you did use *that* word) and I know you mean well, but I respectfully disagree. Without trying to come off as a pretentious know-it-all, reality is far more subjective than most of us would like to believe. In that sense, there is no 'Real World' - there are conventions, social expectations and what the majority of people generally consider to be 'normal', but these things are hardly 'real' in the true sense of the word.

I don't mean to wax philosophical, but my point is that just because I'm not interested in following the typical route, doesn't necessarily mean that I am living in any more of a fantasy world than the cubicle-dweller trying to climb the corporate ladder.

If, on the other hand, by 'thinking like an adult' you are referring to taking responsibility, then I wholeheartedly agree with you. In a sense lazyness is a failure to take responsibility for ones own life, and I fully admit that I will need to change my ways in that respect. But if you are merely using the term 'adult' as a proxy for convention and conformity then I will pass, thank you very much.

Of course we might as well be speaking different languages to one another, since you will put my comments down to the impetuousness and inexperience of youth and I will assume your idealism has been crushed by the establishment, but I thought you deserved a reply anyway :)

P.S: World peace is a dream - $100/day from affiliate marketing in 3 months is just damn unlikely!