It seems that everyone wants to buy a house. Why? Notions of success, stability, etc.

But this is my realization: ultimately, a house and a home is a box. Literally and figuratively. Doesn’t matter if you rent or own, it is still a box.

Also, once you buy and own a home, it owns you. Also, imagine all the time you waste having to accumulate your house with stuff, and having to maintain it.

I think about Alexander the great: how apparently he said when he died, “look at my hands, they are empty. I want to let the world know that when I died, I have nothing my hands”. What he meant to say was his life was dedicated to expansion, building an empire, spreading Hellenism, and conquest.

Therefore the question you wanna ask yourself is would you rather be a Genghis Khan or Alexander the great, or would you rather be a sultan who sits on his throne, having the whole world attend to him? Or would you rather be king Leonidas, bare and free, or would you rather be a rich Persian slave?