My Dear Dan,

There’s so much I want to share with you, so much I want to protect you from. Especially relating to the way you choose to live your working life.

There’s a prison that the majority live in. Not a prison that you get physically locked up in when you commit a crime. But a prison bore out of necessity and conformity. That prison is called work.

Sometimes that prison isn’t so bad. You may not even realize you’re in it. You might even enjoy it. But for the most part, that prison can be a constant source of pain and anxiety. It can drain the joy from your life, it can keep you from your dreams, and it can even destroy relationships.

Why am I telling you this?

As you grow up, you will formulate ideas of what you want to become as an adult. Those ideas may be grand, like becoming an astronaut or a Prime Minister. Or perhaps they may be more humble and follow your passions and hobbies.

Whatever you decide, I always want you to have the choices that I never had. To be free to choose whichever path you wish. But most importantly, to be able to choose to change that path whenever you want to and not feel beholden to it.

In this new digital age (that will probably just feel like normal life to you), there has never been so much freedom and opportunity in the history of mankind. For the first time in our history, thanks to the internet, we have finally been able to unlink the age-old connection between time and money.

No longer is our success governed by the number of hours that we used to work. Now, it’s about working smarter, not harder. You are born into this, it was different for us and we had to work for it.. 

Anyway, the good news is, not long to that Disney Land that your sister asked for… 

With All My Love..  

Uncle Ash 😊

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