Simply put, we were taught to: Finish high school, go to college, get married, secure a lifetime position with growth potential and insurance, plan for retirement, retire, travel, and then age off into the sunset of success before we die. I have questioned this my entire life. My nephew dies when he was a toddler back in 1983. He never went to high school. I have had three friends kill themselves and several family members drink themselves straight into the ground. They all shared a few things in common in that this plan, this so called plan for our success has not a damn thing to do with being successful and/or happy. The whole thing, the entire idea that was layed out for each one of us, well, many of us, is a fabrication of epic proportions and should be of no real measure against anybody's particular position in life at any one point in time.