Is it just me?

My life.

Told at school that you have to do well at your exams to get on. In fact, if you don't do well, then you feel utterly miserable.

Get out of school and go to University. Still conviced you have to do well, so work hard. Get a good degree and then look for first real job.

During first real job, realise that exams weren't that important, up until the very last one. Get a degree and all the rest is null and void.

Work hard at work. Work very hard. Do overtime, do weekends, do nights. No longer physical work, yet feel physically drained and knackered almost every day. Have to keep learning just to stand still.

Seem to be earning a decent wage. Better than most, but no where near pop stars and footballers. Think it is decent, but realise that I still have a bloody great mortgage and that if I didn't keep working like a bitch, it wouldn't take long to lose my home.

Realise that my wife has also got to work bloody hard + more, as I am too lazy to do chores all the time. I really have to be bullied to do them, because I fucking hate them. I am tired from work, yet have to do chores. It never used to be like that, did it?

My wife and I work our guts out. We are under constant pressure to do well at work and then we have all the mundane house work than needs doing too. Have made things harder mine, by getting cats that make mess and damage things.

That's it. My life. Running around the hamster wheel, while the government steals from me and increasingly tells me what to do. Both my wife and I are exhausted every night and while we have more than most, it doesn't seem like much in reality.

Is this what life is supposed to be about? I can't even contemplate adding kids to that equation, but I'm pushing on and want to have them at some point. Is this the life I want them to have too? Like hell it is.

So why am I doing it? Why don't I piss off to Canada or elsewhere and live a more simple, less pressurised life?

Because my wife doesn't want to be away from her friends and family. Fair enough, but that means more of this shite.

So what is the alternative here? Get the scum that have made our lives one long slog out and get freedom back into this country.

That's why I am a member of the Libertarian Party. Is there anyone else out there like me?