And, yes, while financial and competitive gain is rewarding, the pseudonymous political street artist Banksy summed it up perfectly: “If you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.”
From living a champagne-fuelled existence cocooned in luxury, entrepreneurs and film producers Sherin Wong and Ming-Ne Tan swapped it all for a life of working the land in the Australian countryside. Their brand-new venture, christened the House of Mi-Rin as a charming portmanteau of their names, aims to welcome all who seek a gentler way of living, even if just for a few days.
The metaphor “rat race” has a sad banality to it: a seemingly endless, self-defeating and futile pursuit of nothing. And, yet, most of us still do not know what we are running from or towards; we simply follow along, like lemmings, to avoid being left behind.
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