| there's something wonderful about free time. time to just enjoy whatever it is that makes you smile and enjoy your life. people often forget that work should equal play. the work that you do now, is so you can have fun in an equal amount. I mean, it's great that some people work such industrious lives to amass a great amount of prestige and material wealth and it's somewhat respectable, but at the same time, you kinda pity them. some people have to work though. things don't come to them easy and so you kinda feel bad. some people need to chain themselves to a desk for 8 hours to get an A on that test, or to make it past middle management and when they get to that point, that's great, but it's those people who never find that point where they're content with their success and hard work and have no idea when and how to stop to enjoy it. like you hear about those people that "marry" their work? that seems so sad  . when you move on from some point in your life or you leave a position and see everything still go on and someone just take up where you left off, you see how ephemeral things are. how does it go....even if you're not there, the parade still moves on? the machine keeps chugging? the party goes on? you work and toil and reach that senior VP position at 65. awesome, now after that 3rd heart attack you find yourself in a hospital bed and you worry that the company is going to fall into shambles but hey, they just moved up one of your assitant regional VP's and the company is moving along just fine. wow... fail.  I'm not saying you don't enjoy the ride sometimes. I did my toil in school and had a blast, and I've worked hard at companies and really did well and enjoyed it, but you need to just get away sometimes and live. let the company fall apart, let the presentation not have that special touch you always give...it'll still move on while you're having a grand old time in the caribbean. it's just like the story of a bad encounter. someone cuts you off on the freeway and doesn't know it. you cry and piss and moan about how lousy a driver he is and you let it seeth and boil inside you and it ruins your entire day. the other guy? doesn't even know it happened. so let it go. move past feeling the need to dwell on work and hate and other things. you have better things to do like live and enjoy your life. "A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind." Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 |
