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I walked to work this afternoon because it was such a nice day.  I have decided that my favourite sound in the entire world is the sound of the breeze rustling through trees.

It was very, very hard not to just sit myself down under a tree in the park and stay there for the afternoon.

Yoyogi park is always full of people engaging in all sorts of interesting activities.  There are the usual few people napping in the sun, but most people are hitting about a shuttlecock, tossing a ball or practicing some sort of dance routine.  There is also always at least two or three people sitting in the flowerbeds taking macro photographs of the flowers.

I don’t remember ever seeing so much activity going on in Melbourne parks, it makes it a really fun place to be.  Patrick and I need to go and buy ourselves some baseball gloves so we can throw our baseball around in Yoyogi park.

Life is too good here.  Only one of us need work, and only on a rather small schedule at that.  If we were more organised, I am sure we could arrange for both of us to work just a tiny bit and still be able to live here comfortably.  We are admittedly very bad at sticking to any sort of budget, so we do tend to spend more than we have, but that would happen no matter how much we were earning…  We will get better at budgeting eventually.

It makes me begin to wonder if life ever needs to really be any different.  Do we need to focus on work and property and investments for our future, or should we be satisfied to do as we please and arrange our work to suit?

There are plenty of people who would never have the option to do anything other than work too hard and live from paycheck to paycheck, who will never own a home or have any investment or financial security.  If these people don’t have the option of developing any sort of finacial security, why is it that we should base our own life around doing so?

There seem to be far too many interesting things to see and do and study in the world to spend so much time working, and then being tired from work.   

I guess the main incentive for the properties and investments and financial security is for supporting children… I don’t quite know how we will ever fit them into our nice lifestyle.

Maybe it is just a phase I am going through…

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