To work to live or to live to work?

Hello everybody

Today I would like to move away, even if only once, from my articles to the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain to devote myself to a reflection that arose almost spontaneously after the events that occurred in a few days between them is not the fact of looking at the world of work.

The second event precedes this which I told you about a few days.

Since childhood I have lived a life in parallel with a fraternal friend who is in the condominium with garden where I was born and raised up to 22 years.
I got full marks, he got full marks. I graduated with 60/60 ditto him. I graduated in economics and business with 110/110 with honors and he did it with academic acclaim.

We have all embarked on prestigious professional careers, with similar salaries and the same standard of living. We saw each other sporadically after the start of their respective jobs because they were always around Italy, but every time we saw each other it was like never having left each other.
This is a strong departure, with its harsh criticism of me because it is an important career for stupid reasons.

He was devoted to his career, for him there was nothing but his job. I feel like a family and he is a career. In the adequate it was political and passed from one relationship to another, without importance because they should not hinder his rise.

We haven't heard from each other for 9 long years and a few days ago I learned that a heart attack took 41 years away.

I have to be honest, approve the news we are male and I am sorry despite the departure and the way they left us, but I immediately thought it could have been me.

The road I had taken was just that, the stress was consuming me and probably would have ended that way.

After these two months of sight .. life is one and deserves to be lived.

As I see it, not there

he can only vote for his career or think only about working, even if he is not a senior, because it would be a life "wasted" on work when it will be a tool for living and not vice versa.

Without incurring moralistic ends, so that there are people forced to work a whole day to bring their wages home, but I also believe that at some point they must take the reins of their lives and make choices.

I jumped in the dark and all from scratch my new job; I have not denied it was easy, but with a free mind and a lot of motivation I managed to build a life that I can live without giving up my spaces and cultivating my interests.

But without having to sacrifice the family.

What do you think of it, what was your experience?