‘What’s something society expects you to want, but you don’t?’ – 17 milestones that people are happy to skip

Sometimes it can feel like life is a non-stop barrage of expectations. You need to study this, earn that, and live in a big fancy house. Or do you?

According to the findings of Sufficient_Thing24, more and more people are choosing to opt out of these demands. And we know this because they put the following question to the good folks over at r/AskReddit:

‘What’s something society expects you to want… but you don’t?’

Put off life’s expectations for another five minutes by reading these top replies…

1.

‘I have zero career ambition. I don’t want to be in charge, I don’t want to be the boss, I don’t want to climb the corporate ladder. I don’t want power.’
-Romnonaldao

2.

‘Things, I find myself less and less enamored by materialism.’
-FuckThisShizzle

3.

‘AI, if they let me I’d check a box to say “never ask AI anything, just use the old e.g. Google algorithm” etc.

‘I’m a 43 year old IT guy, this stuff is… dubious, the promises are sky high and they’re subsidizing it to the tune of 10X what people pay, so this is just a huge money loser trying to justify spending incredible amounts of money without making a profit.’
-Clawdius_Talonious

4.

‘Big expensive weddings. Total waste of money.’
-Emotional_Bag1820

5.

‘Constant socializing, as per spending every weekend outside with people’
-Next-Importance-4072

6.

‘Extreme wealth. I just want to be comfortable.’
-cringeyybella

7.

‘A girlfriend. I’m way too solitary’
-X-113-2d

8.

‘Kids. No, I don’t have a “motherly instinct” just because I have a vag.’
-VenusSwift

9.

‘Fancy cars and expensive clothes. I just don’t care’
-King0fthewasteland