Does anyone have a life anymore?
(This isn't a rant. I'm merely curious)
I think when people (Americans) think of life they think of a career/job. Since you need that to survive.
Does anyone remember before jobs were 'necessary' for survival?
The life I'm talking about is one centered on people. Family. Friends. Pursuing your interests (money-free). Interests like creating, writing, reading, playing an instrument, traveling, and a myriad of other things we don't have time for now that we have to go to work 5 days a week.
It's too bad we can't go back to that.
We can't, really - we have to 'Keep Moving Forward' (I like the motto but I hate how we have to use it now).
So we try to find a job that we actually enjoy. It might take a while to get there but eventually, hard work pays off and sometimes we find ourselves able to enjoy making money.
It's all about the money, after all.
"I make such-and-such a year..." "Is that enough to support a family?" "I want them to have a good life - I need a job that pays such-and-such."
It's quite sad.
I love hearing about "the olden days" when people worked, but weren't forced into living in the fast lane. When everyone pulled together to get the work done so they could celebrate.
Barn-raising parties...sewing/quilting bees...harvest-times...sheep-shearing...
Even though I love all the modern conveniences (or inconveniences)...
I think man has regressed.
And sometimes, when I'm at work enjoying creating a powerpoint or a flyer...I think "could I do this for the rest of my life?" And I know that I don't want to live my life by my job.
I want to be able to leave it and go home to create things with my children. Like dollhouses. Or cowboy-and-indian forts.
I want a life.
Not a job.
Haha, there's a little bit of Kathy working in you here. :)
ReplyDeleteBut you're right. In a real way, we don't have lives. I watch people who do manage to do a lot of extracurricular things and feel a mixture of jealousy and dislike. Not for them, really but... I don't know. There's some kind of jumble of poor kid vs. rich kid there that I don't fully understand, and which isn't always rational.
It would be nice to have more time and more money to do things outside of work eating up our lives.