One of the first adult novel that I read was the Razor's Edge....

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1. never saw the movie

but i have the book and re-read it at least once a year...one of my faves...

The idea that we can define ourselves as who we are rather than who others want us to be is huge...and i understand your post because we are at a time in our world where our work, our purpose has to be greater than ourselves...we have a planet to heal, humanity to care for, etc...but at the core of this is really the choice to stop playing by the same rules or change the game. and we are in a place where the game must change, one person following their bliss is dandy...but we need to find a way to shift an entire tide of people to living outside the normal confines of society, money, status, etc...


it always blows me away to read books from around the depression era and the 20s leading up to it... because the rich and the social stratification was so big, just like today....and the wealthy only cared about their own stuff, much like today... the paralells are amazing....
does human nature have to be inclined to that? can we be better than past generations? or is money/'stuff' really the root of all evil?