What is a good life?

[sevbucmash]

What would be a good life and how you have it at the moment?

Let's take a number, 100. 100 bananas, 100 apples, whatever, our currency is just a number 100 and it represents your monthly income after all taxes, or if you wish, taxes are not taken account, there are no taxes.

Out of 100 you subtract food, and place, if you own your place then expenses, if you rent, then the rent, also car gas maintenance payment, and whatever else. Intertainment is not taken into account because intertainment is what you can afford on what is left and what you are willing to spend.

Let me begin:

100
-7.5 food
-3 place
-0.5 transportation
-5 shopping
-0.6 cell + internet
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83.4

At the end of month I have 83.4 whatever out of 100! How about you?

 

[BackInTheGame78]

Every person's definition is different.

It's irrelevant what others consider a "good life", only what YOU consider a good life.

 

[plumber]

doing what you choose, and choosing based on desire not fear or duty.

 

[Hamurabimbi]

 

[BaronOfHair]

Along with

 

[corrector]

What would be a good life and how you have it at the moment?

Let's take a number, 100. 100 bananas, 100 apples, whatever, our currency is just a number 100 and it represents your monthly income after all taxes, or if you wish, taxes are not taken account, there are no taxes.

Out of 100 you subtract food, and place, if you own your place then expenses, if you rent, then the rent, also car gas maintenance payment, and whatever else. Intertainment is not taken into account because intertainment is what you can afford on what is left and what you are willing to spend.

Let me begin:

100
-7.5 food
-3 place
-0.5 transportation
-5 shopping
-0.6 cell + internet
-----------
83.4

At the end of month I have 83.4 whatever out of 100! How about you?

100?

30 food
40 tranportation
40 debt payments
20 entertainment
10 tithes / charity
10 utilities
3 Gym

153-- means I'm screwed because the job that I'm devoting my full-time hours to, is not paying enough money to have a decent lifestyle and entertainment is used for escapism to help me from saying fvck it all and quit the job and let the repo guys take the car and declare bankruptcy on the debt and then apply for welfare.

Live with my folks so I'm not paying directly for rent.

I don't feel I'm being honest with entertainment. 90% of content consumption is on youtube, 10% is on other streaming services, but I like to have a large digital library, and think having that extensive library is also indirectly fueling further consumption of content on youtube. (ie if you know you can watch something at anytime, you probably proscrastinate and watch something else)

 

[Scaramouche]

100?

30 food
40 tranportation
40 debt payments
20 entertainment
10 tithes / charity
10 utilities
3 Gym

153-- means I'm screwed because the job that I'm devoting my full-time hours to, is not paying enough money to have a decent lifestyle and entertainment is used for escapism to help me from saying fvck it all and quit the job and let the repo guys take the car and declare bankruptcy on the debt and then apply for welfare.

Live with my folks so I'm not paying directly for rent.

I don't feel I'm being honest with entertainment. 90% of content consumption is on youtube, 10% is on other streaming services, but I like to have a large digital library, and think having that extensive library is also indirectly fueling further consumption of content on youtube. (ie if you know you can watch something at anytime, you probably proscrastinate and watch something else)

Hi Corrector,
You are the noblest Roman of us all,despite a rotten job,lousy wages and having to help care for your Old Folk,you still find money for charity....You're a better Man than I am Gunga Din.

 

[corrector]

Hi Corrector,
You are the noblest Roman of us all,despite a rotten job,lousy wages and having to help care for your Old Folk,you still find money for charity....You're a better Man than I am Gunga Din.

Well charity/tithes are a matter of faith as well. It also helps me see things as the glass is half-full. I mean, if I lose faith, that's probably the first to go. It becomes like a token spinner between the harsh reality of the circumstances and the bright rosey glasses of faith.