Living the middle class dream

What is a middle class citizen, successful, happy and fulfilled? The middle class dream has been sold so well that even the upper crust want a piece of the middle class dream. The middle class dream is one surrounded by like-minded peers, well -educated, reticent and ultimate so well-balanced, well-liked and sociable that they denounced wealth and all forms of ostentatious display of status and prestige as a mark of a less successful and less fulfilled person. This means that they have everything that everyone has but less of everything that everyone does not want to have.

If you look around, everyone seems to have a middle class face, the face which is not stressed by the daily toils of life defined by frazzle-ness and hurried steps of the working class and the domineering power of the upper class. Once again, I will have to bring back to the photos uploaded on Facebook as a definition of the middle class dream sold so well.

Let me just defined what is a middle class. We easily can used income as a definition of middle class but it is increasingly difficult to used that considering that some people look so reticent that they seem to find money as a detestable and nothing more than a way of controlling people that's all. Anyway, a lot of countries are going in the direction of bulking up the middle class- which is essentially having sufficient money on the good things in life but barely enough to grow their wealth in a manner which allows them to display their status and wealth ostentatiously without feeling smaller and demoralized.

And so the middles class dream is sold. Take two holidays a year, drive a middle of the road Japanese saloon and then wear a nice pair of conservative glasses to work and most importantly: get married and give birth to some babies.

I am not saying this because we must work our ass off and forget about biological need to procreate but rather saying this in a manner that the fact is that your life is consumed by work. Even the need to have children is defined by work and not the biological clock ticking. You see, it is easier to convince your employer of your need to leave on the dot at 6 when you have children then one who is a go getting bachelor.

I know this because the family excuse has been pulled so often at work and I begin to see that people get married simply to leave on time at 6 and get promoted without working so hard at it. Hence married people get to keep their jobs due to the guilt trip that they send their employers and therefore actually the family package comes with the employee.

Having a job is not the cause of having a family, it is rather the other way around and that is actually why having a family is really because of your job. You want to know how I know, look at yourself at the mirror and then look at your wife or kids, and ask yourself why the hell did you get married to this person and start a family with this person in the first place and, viola you have the answer.

Trust me, I know this and I went through that stage before and was also sucked into it. I was that close to doing that and that is exactly why I speak from experience. 

You see that having family allows us to laze at work and pretend that our family is more important than work and we often used the excuse of educational barriers as a justification of feeling our jobs are secure. In reality it is never secure in the first place, simply because what you do is doable by the person next door.

But the fact is that for such people, the work is more important than the family because in order to post pictures on Facebook, we need to keep our jobs and have like-minded friends and colleagues and just to show the kinship with our peers, otherwise the entire house of cards will fall apart.

What I am saying is that you don't like what you do, you didn't marry to spend a lifetime with another person, and have children in order to keep your job. Hence the middle class dream is created in order to keep semblance of regularity for the sad, pathetic lives a lot of people are living.

Just admit it, you really lived to work- this means that your entire life is consumed by work and you will realized that your entire your life has been wasted on an education you did not enjoy and a work that gives you no fulfillment and a family which pretends that you are not there at all.

Your lack of pride is simply the reason for you to keep this middle class dream chugging along that's all.

Time for a car or condo!!