If you’re not living every moment to its fullest - or even if you think you are - head on over to read Tim’s beautiful post. It will inspire you to squeeze the beauty out of every single moment.
Tim said,
Thanks for the kind words, Kris!
Jove — I take what you say to heart, and while I didn’t address the quality-of-work issue explicitly in my post, it’s not that I miss the point. I DO think it’s very important to get more out of EVERY part of our lives, very much including our working lives.
(By the way, I blog about that kind of stuff a lot at my professional blog.)
The trouble is, lots of folks I talk to see their working-stiff-type jobs as a barrier to their happiness, instead of a potential mode of self-expression and self-fulfillment. For these folks, going to work *is* like sitting in traffic or doing unwanted chores — it’s drudgery.
Maybe I should unpack this more in a follow-up post, because I think the points you raise are very important. Thanks for reading!
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August 3, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
He makes some good points but seems to miss the point that work/earning money needn’t be a waste of those precious days. It seems to me that the fact that we might not live to 110 is actually a very good reason to try our hardest to earn our living doing something we love.
And the other drawback to expecting to live to 110 (his number; not mine) is that one can then become obsessed with saving enough money to maintain one’s standard of living for that long after retirement. Then you don’t take the risks of earning a living doing something you love, or reducing your paid work hours (individually or collectively) so you can spend more time with the kids or whatever else might really be your priority if you really did have only 37 days to live.
Thanks for sending me over there…