There is a saying "to caught up in a rut" or "to be in a rut" and you would image a picture of a squirrel or mouse running in a treadmill, going nowhere endlessly. This is a famous portray in a book called "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert T. Kiyosaki, already known by many people while he explains the truth of people becoming captured in a system of capitalism. Once you got caught by the cycle, there is no way you could escape from the poverty where your decisions and alternatives in your life is pretty much dependent on money.
I like to talk especially about the terminology he used to describe this by saying "captured". There are two ways you could look at this;
- Captured financially
- Captured physiologically
The first one is obvious to understand. You have your income and the amount you received is fixed every month. You tolerate your lifestyle based on how much you earn. You would be living in a house with mortgage interest you are able to pay, eating or dining, shopping, your clothing and style, perhaps pretty much everything. You are employed by someone or company who can fire you anytime they want if you perform poorly at work. You would suit yourself to your financial condition and eventually you would become unsatisfied with the wage because you want more and more. Better quality in your life as you began to access upper standards through media, people, trends and news. The world of business is constantly convincing you to spend more and more money. You are unhappy. You are angry. But oh well, - what can you do about it?
You don't have any power because you are just an ordinary human and not a bank. Money is not some DIY product. And "oh, well!" says Bill Gate; "Life is unfair, get used to it!".
Well, hello Bill, Ok, so I will get used to my unfair life with unhappy fixed income. Yes, suck it up and welcome to the reality where you finally finds out that spider movies are actually lame and your celebrity crushes are too lame. That's right, this is when you feel you got betrayed by the world for your hard worked college years and you open your eyes to see people without such naive emotional attaches.
The next stage is when you accept this cruel reality and gave yourself up. You will tell yourself, self-rationalizing, pretending but in fact brain-washing yourself that you are actually happy with your life. It is human nature to self-rationalize to avoid becoming a loser. You don't want to admit how you are unhappy with your current status because you indeed worked really hard and it is too painful to realize that actually was time wasting? Time wasting but I wouldn't realized back then because I was so naive and stupid. I listened to what they once told me; "study hard and you will live your dream."
Therefore, at first, you have been financially captured and you alter yourself to the amount of money you get. Secondly, you are letting yourself to be captured psychologically and you start to make self-rationalization to make yourself believe that you are satisfied with your current status. Actually not! You are self rationalizing! And you have now joined the treadmill just like the other 90% of people in the world. Congratulation little mouse? Not.
Congratulation to the cat. Who's the cat? Well, obviously they are the rest 10% who are in charge with the real money-flow, rich ones in Beverly Hills and Forbes millionair lists in 2019. They will do anything to make you puffy and yummy on that treadmill.
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I love cats by the way🐱❤️