Exhaustion

They tell you we've all got the same 24 hours in a day. They lie.

I know a guy who literally has 8 figures in the bank. Retired at 43. He's spent the last 30 years doing more or less what he wants, which at his current age is nothing. He literally can't be bothered to vacuum his own floors once a month so he hires a girl to do it. Far from being bothered about this, I say congratulations to him. I'd hire a maid if I could. And then, like him, I'd sleep 10 hours a night, and do whatever I wanted the other 14 hours of the day.

But that's the thing. I can't do that. I don't have money to hire household servants. I also live in a place so fucking dilapidated it's breaking every 5 minutes. So you know what I'm doing? I'm getting up at 7 in the mornings to meet repair people before leaving for work, then working 8 hours, coming home to discover whatever is now newly broken, spending 2 or so hours trying to enjoy life with my beautiful, brilliant wife who is nevertheless so stressed out over not being able to find work that we can't just have a conversation without her going into a crying fit, then working from home for a few more hours until 2 in the morning. Lather, rinse, repeat. Every damn day. Home isn't even comfortable. None of this is worth it.

So no we do not all have the same 24 hours. I'm lucky to sleep 6 hours in a night, and I desperately need it.

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anonymous Other May 05, 2025 at 4:48 am 0 0