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So what are you doing with yours?
You look around.
Everywhere - one product after another, one thing to consume after the other.
At every corner, something screams:
Buy me. Buy me.
What a sad little world we’ve built.
Driven only by material things.
There’s a quote that feels painfully fitting:
We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t even like.
And yet — don’t get me wrong —
I am no different.
I’ve fallen for it too.
A victim of the endless possibilities of modern time.
Yes — this is what we’ve all become.
Opportunists.
In life, in work, in love.
Chasing what looks prestigious, what looks like success.
We put on our suits, carry our designer bags,
and pretend it means something.
But beneath the surface?
No one admits it,
yet we are emptier than ever.
Our careers, our ambitions —
most of it just keeps a system alive that is quietly poisoning us.
As humans. As a species. As a world.
Money can buy great things.
It buys freedom.
It lets us live how we want.
But too much of it — oh, too much — makes us sick.
So many jobs exist, utterly useless to our humanity.
We get paid to keep the system running,
but for what?
A system that no longer serves us.
The world is fragile now —
one small crack, one misstep, and it could all collapse.
Yet most people don’t want to see it.
Sometimes, I don’t either.
The uselessness of so much in the modern world —
it’s unbearable to witness.
We maximize.
Profits. Output. Appearances.
We are so busy maximizing
that everything that actually matters
slips quietly into the background.
The things we should care about most.
I am tired of performativeness —
in work, in relationships, in life itself.
We cover ourselves with things that seem valuable,
that seem to make a difference.
But in truth… they don’t.
They’re just more wheels
in the machine.
I often feel alone with this opinion.
But I know — no, I am sure — many others feel it too.
They just don’t allow themselves to.
Still, there are cracks.
Moments where doubt seeps through:
What am I doing? Does any of this matter?
But instead of facing it,
we bury it under more work, more distraction, more busyness.
I don’t know where we are heading.
But I know this:
the world, as it is now,
is not one I want to be a part of anymore.
This is why we are building FASTVONWALKEN.
To show that life and business can and must be done differently.