@nobudgetbabe: Have you ever heard about the monkey ladder experiment? This is going to change your life. The monkey ladder experiment is a metaphorical story used to explain how traditions, habits, or norms are often followed without questioning their origins or necessity. In the experiment, a group of monkeys is placed in a room with a ladder leading to a bunch of bananas. Whenever a monkey tries to climb the ladder to reach the bananas, all the monkeys are sprayed with water. Eventually, the monkeys learn to stop any monkey from climbing the ladder to avoid getting sprayed. As the experiment progresses, one monkey is replaced with a new one who doesn't know about the water. When this new monkey tries to climb the ladder, the other monkeys, knowing the consequence, stop it from doing so. Over time, all the original monkeys are replaced, and even though none of them experienced the water spray, they still prevent any monkey from climbing the ladder. This experiment metaphorically represents societal norms and behaviors that are passed down and followed without questioning their relevance or necessity. In daily life, norms like the 5-day work week, the concept of retirement at a certain age, working from home, spending tens of thousands on a wedding, debt accumulation, and the pressure to keep up with materialistic standards ("Keeping up with the Joneses") are often ingrained in society without critical evaluation. People might adhere to these norms simply because they've always been followed without considering if they are still relevant or beneficial. Just like the monkeys in the experiment, these norms can continue without anyone understanding the original reason or evaluating if they still serve a purpose in modern society. And someone who does start to question these things or does things differently is met with criticism, and condemned because "that's not how things are". Basically telling the new monkey not to reach for the bananas. Something that really changed my life was studying philosophy, and just starting to question everything - things like why am I here, what's the point of anything, why am I following this specific path? Through my studies about life I came to the conclusion that the only point of living is happiness. If you're not happy, then there's no point. And if I wasn't happy on the path society set out for me, why would I continue? And this ranged from the smaller side of deciding I wouldn't go into debt for my wedding, a single day out of my entire life. I didn't have a cake, I didn't use paper invites, and I only had 20 people there. To completely turning the traditional life path on its head when I decided I wouldn't work until I was 65, because I didn't want to give up the best years of my life. Inspo: @Chey

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