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2><p id="30a7">Starting a family, especially for women was supposed to be the be-all-end-all of our lives. We live in a different world now, and while this is an inevitable route that a lot of people take it isn’t the <i>only</i> one.</p><p id="8627">If someone wants to stay single their whole life, or not have kids, who actually cares? That’s their life, and just like having a career, having a family does not automatically equal being happy.</p><p id="5b40">There are people who are independent and live life according to their own rules and are the happiest people you will meet. Not wanting a family doesn’t make someone lonely and it definitely is not the only way to live our lives.</p><h2 id="8e8a">3. Creativity doesn’t pay the bills</h2><p id="cff0">Having a creative degree or wanting to study something related to the Arts used to be frowned upon. There was always the notion of the starving artist and that creativity never generated any money.</p><p id="28c9">In this day and age with self-publishing and multiple platforms to sell art, making money as a creative person has never been easier. Especially during the pandemic where people turned to creative hobbies to pass the time and this led to a rise in self-employed business owners.</p><p id="fe38">Nowadays people are more inclined to follow their creative passions because there are an array of avenues to find success, and the broke artist stereotype is becoming a thing of the past.</p><h2 id="594d">4. Age limits</h2><p id="693c">There are people who find success at 19 and there are people who find success at 50. There is no set timeline for us to accomplish goals and there certainly isn’t an expiry date on when we can switch course.</p><p id="f635">Some people spend their whole life experimenting and finding their true passion later in life. Some people decide to go back and study in their 60s and it’s admirable.</p><p id="8a8b">If you know you want a change and go for it regardless of your age that is a trait to be incredibly proud of. It’s never too late or early to change directions in life.</p><h2 id="cfbf">5. Women have an expiry date</h2><p id="ce7f">Some people seem to think that after a certain age, women can’t operate at full capacity anymore. That we need to be having a child early in life and after a certain point we can’t bear children or we ca

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n’t get a partner if we are still single.</p><p id="5c8d">I’m sorry but do we live in medieval times? Technology has evolved enough for women to bear a child whenever they want and now people are opting to have children later in life anyway. Plus there are countless options out there so this really isn’t an issue anymore.</p><p id="564e">There is no set time limit for women to settle down and have children. Women get asked all the time when they are going to start a family and I highly doubt men get asked this nearly as much.</p><p id="b6f0">We are all on our own trajectories and we can choose to make big life decisions when it suits us, not when it suits society and no one has the right to tell us otherwise.</p><h2 id="e8af">6. Staying in one place</h2><p id="be6b">One time my friend asked me “when are you going to stop traveling and fcking around” and I said that I didn’t realise enjoying my life was considered “fcking around” but sadly for some people that is the case.</p><p id="4c78">We don’t need to stay in one place to have a <i>serious</i> or settled life. We humans are curious creatures and for some of us, that means moving around constantly. The inability to stay in one place isn’t a bad thing and shouldn’t be viewed as such.</p><p id="2003">Some of us like to shop around till we decide to find a place and stick with it, and some are fine to stay where they have always lived. There is no right or wrong way, yet constantly being on the road seems to have a bad reputation as it apparently shows a lack of commitment.</p><p id="08a6">I say to hell with that notion. How are we supposed to know where we will truly be happy if we don’t explore and sample other places first?</p><p id="8407">We still have a long way to go as a society. We need to update our ways of thinking to fit the new world we reside in. There are mentalities that still thrive in this day and age and they shouldn’t as they stick around like a bad smell.</p><p id="24dc">In order to move forward we need to shed the past, but take the lessons learned from them in order for us to grow and evolve in the future.</p><p id="a4e0">Who knows where we will go from here, we are constantly growing on an individual and collective level, but one thing we should always be striving for is to do and be better than we were in the past.</p></article></body>

6 Major Ideals Our Society Needs To Unlearn

It’s time to break these traditional mindsets

It’s 2022. We have come a long way as a society but paradoxically not as far as we could have come. When it comes to technology we are developing new infrastructures and are constantly upgrading to the next high-tech phenomenon.

Then there are the deep-rooted traditional ways of thinking that still exist in our society today. However, these traditions are so outdated and the way that our world is right now doesn’t fit these ideals yet they still somehow fight to stay alive.

There are certain ideas that need to be shed as they have no place in our current world and here are a few of them.

1. Career equals success

There was once a time when having a career was everything. To be honest depending on where you live it still is everything to many people.

We have been taught that you needed to excel in your career as the deeper meaning was that having a successful career equated to being happy and having a good life. This is not necessarily the case for everyone.

If you love what you do and you thrive on having a successful career then that is great. But if career and professional status aren’t so important to you and the only thing that matters is having a steady paycheck so you can live your life and find happiness in other places then that is also great.

A career isn’t everything and we should shed the idea that it is. Just because someone doesn’t have a “good” job this doesn’t make them any less happy. In fact, there are people who have the most successful career and are the unhappiest people.

Some people prefer to have a better work-life balance and to spend their time experiencing life rather than chasing a promotion and that can also be defined as success.

2. Starting a family

Starting a family, especially for women was supposed to be the be-all-end-all of our lives. We live in a different world now, and while this is an inevitable route that a lot of people take it isn’t the only one.

If someone wants to stay single their whole life, or not have kids, who actually cares? That’s their life, and just like having a career, having a family does not automatically equal being happy.

There are people who are independent and live life according to their own rules and are the happiest people you will meet. Not wanting a family doesn’t make someone lonely and it definitely is not the only way to live our lives.

3. Creativity doesn’t pay the bills

Having a creative degree or wanting to study something related to the Arts used to be frowned upon. There was always the notion of the starving artist and that creativity never generated any money.

In this day and age with self-publishing and multiple platforms to sell art, making money as a creative person has never been easier. Especially during the pandemic where people turned to creative hobbies to pass the time and this led to a rise in self-employed business owners.

Nowadays people are more inclined to follow their creative passions because there are an array of avenues to find success, and the broke artist stereotype is becoming a thing of the past.

4. Age limits

There are people who find success at 19 and there are people who find success at 50. There is no set timeline for us to accomplish goals and there certainly isn’t an expiry date on when we can switch course.

Some people spend their whole life experimenting and finding their true passion later in life. Some people decide to go back and study in their 60s and it’s admirable.

If you know you want a change and go for it regardless of your age that is a trait to be incredibly proud of. It’s never too late or early to change directions in life.

5. Women have an expiry date

Some people seem to think that after a certain age, women can’t operate at full capacity anymore. That we need to be having a child early in life and after a certain point we can’t bear children or we can’t get a partner if we are still single.

I’m sorry but do we live in medieval times? Technology has evolved enough for women to bear a child whenever they want and now people are opting to have children later in life anyway. Plus there are countless options out there so this really isn’t an issue anymore.

There is no set time limit for women to settle down and have children. Women get asked all the time when they are going to start a family and I highly doubt men get asked this nearly as much.

We are all on our own trajectories and we can choose to make big life decisions when it suits us, not when it suits society and no one has the right to tell us otherwise.

6. Staying in one place

One time my friend asked me “when are you going to stop traveling and f*cking around” and I said that I didn’t realise enjoying my life was considered “f*cking around” but sadly for some people that is the case.

We don’t need to stay in one place to have a serious or settled life. We humans are curious creatures and for some of us, that means moving around constantly. The inability to stay in one place isn’t a bad thing and shouldn’t be viewed as such.

Some of us like to shop around till we decide to find a place and stick with it, and some are fine to stay where they have always lived. There is no right or wrong way, yet constantly being on the road seems to have a bad reputation as it apparently shows a lack of commitment.

I say to hell with that notion. How are we supposed to know where we will truly be happy if we don’t explore and sample other places first?

We still have a long way to go as a society. We need to update our ways of thinking to fit the new world we reside in. There are mentalities that still thrive in this day and age and they shouldn’t as they stick around like a bad smell.

In order to move forward we need to shed the past, but take the lessons learned from them in order for us to grow and evolve in the future.

Who knows where we will go from here, we are constantly growing on an individual and collective level, but one thing we should always be striving for is to do and be better than we were in the past.