re: Anyone else question what the meaning of life is after a vacation?

You could quit working tomorrow.

But you won’t be able to fly to Hilton Head or four days anymore….and wife will probably leave you too.

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But I mean are we as human beings really meant to work 5-7 days a week with maybe one full day for leisure until we’re 65 years old?

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If you think about it for the vast majority of human existence, we worked 365 days a year from the point we could work until the day we couldn;t work any longer.

Honestly, start your own business. Yes you will have some stress dealing with risk but after a while you'll be in charge of your schedule as well as being to get away as you train people to completely cover in your absence. It's a novel idea. Highly recommend it to you.

When I used to backpack I’d feel the same way. Life was boiled down to walk, drink water, eat, sleep and all surrounded by stunning scenery. Every problem in life dissolved after day 2. We would start to regress into teenage boys. No other coping mechanism could ever replace that feeling

Sucks when you’re on a long vacation and you’ve only got a couple of days left. Then you just spend the time thinking about having to go back to the real world.

I don’t like vacations. Usually end up selling back my unused time off

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But I mean are we as human beings really meant to work 5-7 days a week with maybe one full day for leisure until we’re 65 years old?

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Short answer: absolutely not.

Every time I come back from Isla Mujeres I question myself why do I put myself through all the stressful work that I do

Things just move at such a slow pace on there and everybody seems happy, people go with the flow and they live such a minimal lifestyle yet seem to be the happiest people on the planet

Family is everything in that culture. We talked to some Americans who moved down there to get away from the house of bustle, and they were telling us about a drastic change, they were stressed to the max when they lived here in the US, but whenever they moved down there, they literally have zero stress.

I feel stupid about all the material possessions I own, and sadly after a week of being back here in the states I go back to my old ways of consuming consuming consuming

Goodness settle down you hippies

For most of human history you’d have been borderline chattel, most of your kids would die in infancy and you poop in a bucket

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I bet their depression and anxiety rates were basically zero.

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Zero most of the times, and then infinity when they look to the horizon and see a dust cloud. And what happens when they broke a bone or got an infection? What happened when droughts hit?

The best outcomes are for those alive today who benefit from the best technology in human history, but eschew a lot of the stupid spending and therefore afford to let the wife stay home with the children. This removes tremendous stress from the day-to-day need to get things done.