In Need of a Change

I've only been working 4 months, and already I feel like I need a change. It's not really a work-related change, but more a people change.

Why is it that the people who are contented with their lives and their status (i.e. happy to live comfortably and minimally, and don't have to be filthy rich to be happy) are scorned as being unambitious or dumb? I'd love to be a bit more low-key, and unaffected by how others look, how much money they have, and what they think of me. Instead of looking up to people like these - people who care more about things like the environment and spending quality time with their family - society tends to show them disrespect. It is pretty saddening.

Some of the so-called rich, on the other hand, use their wealth and status to intimidate, to get their way (some call it 'exercising their influence'), and to get people to like them. As a result of this, I have, of late, increasingly lost respect for someone that I have known for years. It is arguable that perhaps I did not know this person very well and have only recently come to know another side of said person. On the other hand, perhaps this person has changed so much in recent years that I no longer see the person I used to admire.

I hope that with time, more people will be able to find the balance between striving to have a comfortable life, having successful careers and being reasonably well-off, with being reasonable, likeable people who do not use their riches to make others like them and who expect everything to go their way. We can hope.