Uh yeah – monthly salary, weekly salary, hourly salary – avoid it if you can.

Sure you get something from it all.

But what do you give up?

You give of your freedom and beauty.

I say: Be more creative. Live on less. And live on your own terms.

But what do I know?

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

-Nassim Taleb, The Bed Of Procrustes

Please don’t let me live a life completely confined in a box.

I want so much more.

Please?

And give me the courage to make the change when opportunity shows itself.

They are born, then put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box;” and when they die they are put in a box. All boxes, Euclidian, geometrically smooth boxes.

–Nassim Taleb, The Bed Of Procrustes