Observations
Questions<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I see friends, family, acquaintances working very hard to ‘get ahead’, to do better, to ‘succeed’.
Some seem to accomplish this easily (with satisfaction)—others with great difficulty and setbacks (with frustration).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In America, is it a fault to be content with your economic level, your standard of living, and not want more, talk about more, and work to get more ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is something wrong if you are not dissatisfied with where you are in the first half of of life ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is it the American way that dissatisfaction drives free enterprise, to improve personal and national economics ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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