What is the Rat Race?

Have you ever seen a rat or a guinea pig on a cage? Have you noticed them running on some kind of stationary wheel? They run all day and never get anywhere. That is where the term "the Rat Race" came from. In real world most of us are trapped on "the Rat Race." We may not notice it but we are also on a stationary wheel. We run all day at work. But at the end of the day the work we've done never get us to where we wanted.

For most of us, this is the pattern for our wheel: go to work, pay bills, go to work, pay bills, a little vacation, more bills, go to work, pay bills, loan a car or a house, more bills to pay, go to work, pay bills. It may not be the same for every body but the most common patter for every one of us is go to work and pay bills. That is "the Rat Race." The repeated pattern of trying to go ahead from everybody but not really getting anywhere.