How I Quit My 9–5 Prison to Become Free On An Island In Thailand

The story begins where it does for almost everyone, and usually that is at school. You’re 6 years old and know nothing about the world or yourself yet, you can barely walk, and yet you know you have to go to school.

You have to study hard so you can get into a good university. Get into a good university so you can get a good job. Get a good job so you can earn a high salary and then retire happily.

I played along with this idea for a very long time. For around the first 29 years of my life or so. And it’s very hard to escape this mindset because everyone around you is brainwashed with this same idea.

The idea that you have to do something. You have to be someone. You have to make money. A lot of money. Be a “success”. Just go out and be that with your fancy job and buy a nice house, car ect…

This is a mind virus. And it’s very contagious.

Notice how you feel intuitively that this is not the right way to live. You feel like something is missing. Like there’s a better path you could take but that path seems so unconventional and risky that you don’t want to go through with it because everyone is going to think you are crazy. No one is going to support your crazy idea. And that can be very isolating. And so for most of us we just drudge…