u/HomeworkDry7695

I am a corporate employee, 34F. I am in the same lower position for around 5 years already. I feel different to not want to climb the corporate ladder unlike everyone around me. I Just want to do my job to pay my bills and went home with enough mental energy to spend time with loved ones, cook food, do house chores and be creative with my hobbies which makes me feel alive and present. I dont desire to have expensive things nor depends my happiness through acquiring external material things because I realized everything that I can acquire now is borrowed and temporary and I'll have to leave all of it one day. I just want to have a comfortable life, that's it.

I realized it is not that I became less ambitious, but my ambition was redirected to personal fulfillment that I knew would help me most in the long run until I get old.

I know not everyone has this opportunities due to their priorities and responsibilities. But if I will be given a choice, i will always choose to live simply like this.