Does everyone center their lives around working and never resting?

[Chris Smith]

I was wondering why I'm frustrated all the time and I think I figured out why. Everyone I know never slows down. Everyone either works, drinks a lot, or surfs facebook all the time. We could have much more free time, but choose not to.

As somebody said, "The major problem in our society is our need to constantly do, make, or build something... What is wrong with sitting on our asses all day talking to each other? Can't we just throw a hackey-sack around while drinking sixty-four degree beer for sixteen hours straight? There is nothing wrong with being lazy if you are doing it with someone else. But, current societal standards don't allow for that unless your bank account is bigger than George Wendt's liver."

As the author Charles Bukowski said in Factotum, “It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”