The dark sky smiles

Unproductive.
unproductive.
unproductive.

Playing is like...drugs
Work is like... staying off it

At first staying off drugs is impossible,
so many people don't even bother.

Then some realize that in order for them to succeed,
they have to rehabilitate off drugs.
So some try their best to do it.
of course most people don't succeed.

In fact most people who try to go cold turkey,
often revert back after a few weeks,
deeper than ever in the drug-induced illusion.

Some, a rare few, succeed.
They took control of their lives.
They stopped the drug
that spreads throughout their body.

They see what is important,
and they don't do it.
So they get out of the drug-hallucinated life,
and they do what they know will make them happy.

So most of them go out,
and they study.
they are miserable, but they keep telling themselves,
"It's going to be worth it."
and they just do it.
It kills them inside.

Then they go on to their working life,
the world of office politics,
and they work harder than ever,
the long hours pains them,
but they just want that promotion,
so they tell themselves,
"it's going to be worth it."

And then,
old and rich.
They sit back, no family, no wife.
They look at their massive wealth,
with no one to share it with.

They are too old to drink,
too old to go out and play,
too old to laugh and joke with friends.

"Is it worth it?"

Is it better to stay in the play-induced hallucination where you will be happy,
then to face the real world and search for that true happiness that will never
come?

Just something that crossed my mind.