There isn't enough time
Playing legos, badminton, ultimate frisbee, slacklining, dancing, programming TSP, playing the guitar (This last one might be a little premature). These are all things that I would describe as my passions. These are things that at one point in my life have completely occupied my every thought, desire and effort. For months at a time. These are the things that I live for. (I think it would be equally right and equally wrong to actually say that I live for people. Being the extrovert that I am.)
But the problem is, there is not enough time for it all. Even if I didn't have to work to sustain myself, there wouldn't be enough time for me to do all those activities to my hearts content. This is what it boils down to. This is why I never want a job. I don't want a job, because to me a job is a Waste. Of. Time. It just isn't the point. I'm not here to slave away.
Sometimes when I talk to people (usually back home, I don't get this as much at CC), and I respond to their question of "What do you want to do?" with a response of "Not work.", I get blank stares. Or they ask, "why not?" I've never known how to deal with these people. To me it seems so obvious. It seems self-evident. It seems like a universal truth. WORK = BAD. Yet, we are expected to resign ourselves to it. We are expected to spend the vast majority of our waking lives doing it.
If you aren't loving what you are doing, then why are you doing it? Life is short people. There just isn't enough time! It is of course easy for me to say this. I am aware of the privileged life I have led. But that doesn't make me wrong. I think...
People think that I don't want to work because I am lazy. That is certainly one way to look at it. But I think it is inaccurate. I approach my passions not with laziness or idleness. No, I approach them with verve and vigor. It is just that I would rather be doing something else.
This post really did start out as an ode to my passions. It wasn't supposed to be an angry rant against the establishment. But sometimes life tries to give you lemons. So you have to yell to the world how much you would rather have oranges.
Anyway, back to time. There just isn't enough of it. In my post Polyphasic Sleep Redux from this time last year, I talked about reasons to do it. And this is the main reason. There just isn't enough time. Maybe I really will give it a go again this December.
Anyway, I not ashamed of it anymore. I don't want to work. And it is my second goal in life to do it the least amount as possible. (The first goal being to do as much playing legos, badminton, ultimate frisbee, slacklining, dancing, programming TSP and playing the guitar as I possibly can).
To life, my friends! To life!
21 November 2008 09:49am UTC • 494 views • 1 comment
Tagged with life, living, work, hopes, passions, badminton, legos, frisbee, slacklining, dance, tsp, guitar, lotsoftags
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Peon Peetie
21 November 2008 03:27pm UTC
oh man do i dig that. i don't have any real peon time until around 7 oclock every night. what's that about?!