The Average Life Questionnaire

Tell me when you see this picture, does it make you think this family is happy? Does it seem like the mom or the dad got to live their full potential and become whatever they dreamed of as kids, but now they are passing the lost hopes to their new offspring? Do you think that the family will even have enough money to give their kids the potential for a future they want them to have? (I'm going to be asking a lot of questions lol)

Well here are the general ones:

• What is it exactly that sets someone apart in the way they live? (What factors consider someone living a better life than another)
• Don't we all long for the same thing in the end which is security, love, and a sense of being passed on no matter how small or great?
• Why do people get married if they can live the same way without a ring on their finger?
• Is there a point in all of our lives where we secretly give up what we had planned to do because "life gets in the way?"
• Why don't we deserve the money we want, or the career we most truly desire?
• Would anyone agree that we strive to be boring, thinking of it in a long term view?

It seems as if people follow a pattern. It may start differently, but through adulthood certain things (settling down, having a steady job until retirement, and maybe a kid or two) are secretly embedded in our growth of sophistication and maturity. I have heard from some people that desires change as we grow older, but I don't understand why there has to be hidden ultimatums as we change our choices. Why do I have to be lonely if I want to be a big business man who wants to earn a lot of money? Why is it that if I decide to start early on a family that I have to live with what I got and make the best of things, even though I know I could've been more financially secure if I waited? This world creates such confusing paths, each withholding some sort of balance that we will never understand.

I am not trying to confuse anyone with all these random questions and ideas, but whenever I hear someone tell me "Live your life to the fullest," all these things pop in my mind. Also, everything I am asking is going towards a bigger question which is what factors must be in someone's life to be considered living to the fullest? Does my life completely suck compared to someone else's? What is the difference between a life lived to the fullest and an average life lived?

I guess all my questions cannot be answered, but I'll leave you with this (somewhat irrelevant):

Why are we told to reach for our dreams when we are also told that dreams are not real..?