Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.
You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
friendly fuckin reminder that Steve Rogers swears more goddamn times on screen than any other bastard in the entire MCU
god fuckin bless
Additionally he automatically thought fondue meant sex, had to be pulled out of fights with guys twice his size, illegally tried to enlist with false information in at least four different locations before agreeing to let someone fill him with untested chemicals, threw himself on a grenade, and has a smirk that practically screams “I caught you thinking about me naked.”
