The OP seems to have hit a nerve
or several, judging from the tone of the responses. Just saying.

Personally, I think he's got a good point, sweeping generalisations aside.
(jennymnemonic, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 15:34, 2 replies)

Sweeping generalisations aside
There's not much left.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 15:37, closed)

What I took from it is
we're socially hard-wired to want certain things that it might not behove us to want, and we can have lots more fun and adventures if we don't beat ourselves up for not wanting them/having them.

Certainly I don't envy the small handful of people I know who are in the kind of stultifyingly dull long-term relationships he describes, nor do I ever want to sit through another conversation about the various merits of shelving units(there's only been one, but it was enough.) I think that they do lack imagination, but then that's why they're not people I'd want to spend a massive amount of time with. At the moment I really can't see the attraction of the standard mortgage-marriage-kids triumvirate, but then I'm only 26, I'll probably give up on trying to enjoy life at some point too :)
(jennymnemonic, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 15:44, closed)

You don't have to be married with kids to be a massive dullard

(Nanny Pat vote for me, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 16:31, closed)

Thanks
Finally someone who understands what I'm saying. Because so many have taken the social hard wired route and as a result feel like they're happy and successful - when challenged by what I wrote, they take it personally and to heart and hit out. Especially those that married and had kids at a young age.
(Miggyman, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 18:27, closed)

i know!!
Cant believe what a nerve I hit :)
Controversy is great isn't it! But I think a lot of have taken it offensive, rather than what I was trying to say. Which is basically get off your arse and do these dreams that you want. Because its much harder to do it once you have commitments of family, children and a mortgage. Also people seem in such a rush these days to get that, because they think its the be all and end all of life.. Once they have it, theyre all smug and acting like theyre better than everyone else! Yet in reality they are wishing, they had of done more beforehand, and now its too late.

The simple fact is, if I had of written it like that, people wouldnt have taken notice and found the post rather boring :)
(Miggyman, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 15:45, closed)