Sex Activists Also Reflect On Not Getting Ahead

In keeping with yesterday's Salon links on going nowhere in a material or job sense, I see Heather, Pure as the Driven Slush, is commenting: "Every now and then I get a little low, feeling like for my age, I haven't accomplished all that much, especially materially (which is a very non-Buddhist thing to get low about, I know). Most of my friends either own houses or are shopping for them, have a car or two, have savings accounts, go on big vacactions, the works; things I don't have and can't do. But, most of my friends also have credit card debt I don't and don't get to do their life's work for their living, and can't go to work in their jammies. Most also didn't grow up poor, or have to pay for their high school and college themselves. So really, I'm doing pretty decently for myself -- I need to remind myself of that more often than I do."