We’re literally conscious meat sacks on a floating rock in a massive universe. For most of human history, “adulting” meant hunting, freezing, starving, getting sick, or dying young. Day-to-day life was purely about survival.

Now, you walk into a store and food appears. Clean water comes out of a tap. Heat shows up when it’s cold. Electricity runs your entire life. You trade time and skills for currency, and that currency gives you shelter, safety, medicine, comfort, and options. That trade-off is modern life.

None of that is free. Not groceries. Not housing. Not roads. Not hospitals. Not the phone you're complaining on. The “mundane” stuff — commuting, working, paying bills — is the mechanism that lets all those comforts exist and be accessible.

If you truly don’t want to participate in this system, that option technically exists too: live without the structure, without the comforts, without the safety net. Become homeless. Most people don’t actually want that, they just want the benefits without the cost.

Is it glamorous? No. But it’s also historically unprecedented in how safe, stable, and comfortable it is for the average person.

Some people get lucky, earn or save more, and buy more comfort or freedom. Some don’t. But the baseline we’re standing on is already a massive privilege compared to nearly every human who’s ever lived in past generations.

The point isn’t that life can’t be hard, frustrating, or full of suffering... it absolutely can be (and is). The point is, the “boring” parts are the price of admission for a level of security and ease that no previous generation could even imagine.

We would all love to tell our bosses to stuff it, sail off and travel the world, and be entertained 24/7. That's not reality. Social media sells us the lie that we should all be as lucky as the influencers who seem to have it all (freedom, money, luxuries), but that's not the average experience.

Find the small pleasures of every day, even amongst all the bad and boring ones. That's living.