Waiting to live life aka "work"

This is just a little rant about work. Yet another day at Tama cafe in Bondi, south Sydney. Another 10 hour shift on yet another beautiful sunny day watching everyone else enjoying themselves at the beach. Work has got to be done, dont get me wrong here, my job is pretty epic. I work on a very busy pocket beach in Sydney with girls in bikinis running around the place ordering food from me. The money is good, the job is pretty consistant, and the location being on the beach is great, and the "scenery" is insane. But it still boils down to waiting to live life on another day. Everyday I work this job so that I can live a good life on another day. True most people work hard and spend hard, and thus dont really ever get anywhere. Most of the people I have encountered literally spend everything they earn almost instantaneously and must come to work the next day because the money they made the day before is gone. For me this is not the case. I work hard and save my money, all of it, so that I can spend it another day, in Indonesia. But this is the basic principle that most people have when they enter the working force, that is, save money so they can retire. I guess the thing thats tripping me out is that people actually work their whole lives to save money so they can one day retire, and do all those things they once dreamed of, but who really does that? It seems that people forget along the way what they were working for, and lose sight of their goal, to retire and be "free" from the capitalistic world and be happy. How many people actually achieve this? Either you get lost along the way and forget about your dreams, or you begin to spend more money as you earn more, which is VERY common from people I have met. Once you get used to making a certain amount of money, you find ways to start spending that much more money so that you never really get ahead in the game. You buy a better car, move into a nicer house, wear more expensive clothes, and so on. What used to be a lot of money to you is no longer "that much" money and the bar gets raised once more. Where does it end? Its absolutely mind blowing how quickly people fall into the trap, the capitalistic/consumeristic trap. The other thing that doesnt make any sense to me is how are you meant to enjoy your hard earned money when your 60 or 70 years old? Let's say you finally do retire, and you still have the same dream, or same goal (which would be quite an amazing feat in today's world) your too old to actually travel and enjoy yourself!! This is quite simpkly why I am living my life the way I do now. While I am YOUNG i want to travel, meet people from around the world, and surf the best waves in the world, as this is definately something that cannot be done at the age of 60. Though I am ranting a bit here, this all comes from my frustration in working seasonal work, 3-4 months straight, everyday, 10 hours a day, take a swim, have a shower, eat dinner, and go to bed. I have no social life when I am working. I don't go out at night, go to movies, go out to dinner, nothing. I just wake up, go to work, shower, eat, sleep by 9PM and work again the next day. But its an end to means, and it fulfills my goal to make money fast and get me to where I want to be. It allows me to be where I am happy and can do all of things I want to do before I get old, and surf the best waves in the world. Until this becomes too extreme or I feel like I have seen enough, maybe then I'll consider joing the "real" world back home. At this point, now 2011 and the start of the 5th year of my travels away from home, I'm not sure if I could even cope with living back in "normal society" but the way things are going at thwe moment, it doesnt look like I'll have to as things are going along better then I could have planned, all of this without a plan until recently! Just ask yourself, what do you really want out of life? Are you getting there doing what your doing right now? What would you do if money wasnt an issue? Alot of people work for so long and so much they wouldnt know what the hell to do with their life if they didnt have work. Guess we're all different and have different values. Not many people can do what I do, to achieve what I do. Its not all fun and games for me, but I set my mind to a goal and make it happen at all costs. Can you?