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Social Slavery

You work 8 hours to live 4.
You work 6 days to enjoy 1.
You work 8 hours to eat in 15 minutes.
You work 8 hours to sleep 5.
You work all year just to take a week or two vacation.

You work all your life to retire in old age,
And contemplate only your last breaths.
Eventually you realize that life is nothing but a parody of yourself practicing for your own oblivion.

We have become so accustomed
to material and social slavery
that we no longer see the chains.
Life is a short journey, live it!  
Collect memories, not material things!

So do you see the cage and chains yet or no?
Written by MYSTERIOUS_GIRL (Lizzy_3164)
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