Skewed by working?

I have always thought about this, but finally am in the mood to blog about it today. I've alway thought that working so much as a society takes away people's ambition and motivation for more. I can say first hand that as work gets more stressful, my motivation and creativity goes down the drain. Granted, I generally only work 40 hours a week, and I know plenty of people work more, but after 40 hours I still don't have enough time for all I want to do.

I've blogged before about how as the years go by I, as well as plenty of other people, start to wonder what has happened with time. Now I am really convinced that working as a whole makes people indirectly sort of numb to their real desires.

When I first starting working almost seven years ago (how?), I always jumped at opportunities to do anything fun. And I've noticed as I and others get older, we just don't have the time for things, too much going on, we're too old for that, we need to be responsible, blah blah blah. I don't think it is any of that. Really, truthfully, I think it is just that we work too much.

I have decided this (again) because of people's reaction to my returning from a much needed vacation (and honeymoon). Several people asked if I was "refreshed and ready to be back." Others were glad to see me, but didn't care to hear the details of the trip. The one person who I was able to talk to about the trip, and how great it was, and how much I wanted to go back, was a girl I work with who is still in college. And she said she still thinks about a trip to South America she took several years ago. My guess? She hasn't been stifled by the "real world".