A single question, when broken into two, can help the right answer to just pop in front of your eyes. Let us split the above question into two parts.
- Does your work define your life? Or
- Does your life define your work?
In my answer, I believe my life guides my work. I don't live to work, but I work to live my life.
So often I see people just hammer away the entire day at work, hardly giving a moment of thought about their life. There are so many things that can be done apart from work. Even a person with limited interests can dedicate a reasonable amount of time to anything other than work.
Fast paced life is one culprit. Everybody is on the move for long term, short term or ephemeral interests. A lot many poems have been written describing the inattentive humans passing by Nature's everyday miracles. Maybe it will take a sudden change or a calamity for such people to pause, take a look and wonder only to realize that they had taken so much for granted.
I had received a forward in email that said that work is only a way to sustain life. To finance the many wonderful things that can be done in life. Multi national companies a greater greed to minimize costs maximize earnings has led to some lovely innovations in the fields of human resource management.
Companies invest in avenues to keep the employee at work as long as possible. Recreations, Fitness, Food are only few of the perks provided on campus to keep the employees tied in for longer times. Even people are to blame; they find the company's fast internet better than the slow connection at home or none at all. The Air conditioning is always on!! Why go home??
It is about time people begin to realize that Work is what we do for others, live is what we do for ourselves. Life is short, do what is lively!!
By the way what type are you? Living to Work or Working to Live?
Breaking it into two questions... Select one and put in comments
- Living to Work? Or
- Working to Live?
7 comments:
Living to work...is my funda. You can earn money by coming to work station, but you can not get that peace which motivates you to work. So one should not miss that part of life....abhi
Even if you say you work to live or live to work, either way you are working. Moin and I have somuch to do in life. We have our dreams and goals to achieve and a lot of help to do.
We are working towards achieving them one at a time. But just to understand what we need to do, that we had to understand each other and work together.
It all boils down to what you really want in life. Most of the people dont have a goal in life to target for and just drag their life working & just looking after themselves & their family. But never thinking if they can impact just one another person in their life time.
We need to grow in life and see around how many people live with out direction in life. We have lately been inspired from people achieved great things in life & helping thousands of people across the world and they are young people. I pray eachone of you get a mentor in life who will take you to great heights.
Chao........Arshia
Well, work does not define your life. But it definitely holds an influence over your life. Refines your skills, improves your people management, and a numerous other things typical to the kind of work you do.
Work doesn't necessarily mean a 9-5 job. It could be community service, rearing children, basically contributing to the world in some way....and that influences your life, your thinking, your attitude.....
but it does not define YOU as a person.
We are not meant to be defined.
So....I say Work to live.
And live to contribute something to the world b4 you go.
Ji Janab
I think you will get some clue from the verse (you know what it is):
"ma khalaqtul Jinna wal Insa illa li-ya'budoon" --
"We did not create the Jinn, nor Mankind except to worship Me (sura 51, verse 56)
In case you need a different worldview, and looks like you are in a long weekend mood, the following site may give you some feedforward (i.e., I dont want you to get feed-back): Getting Passion Out of Your Profession
Stay connected, MT and team of Hyderabadiz
simple-
I WORK TO LIVE
I play to live. :D
In an attempt to work to live, we all end up living to work. Its a vicious circle.
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