1. Physical or mental effort or activity directed toward the production or accomplishment of something.
2.
a. A job; employment: looking for work.
b. A trade, profession, or other means of livelihood.
3.
a. Something that one is doing, making, or performing, especially as an occupation or undertaking; a duty or task: begin the day's work.
b. An amount of such activity either done or required: a week's work.
4.
a. The part of a day devoted to an occupation or undertaking: met her after work.
b. One's place of employment: Should I call you at home or at work?
5.
a. Something that has been produced or accomplished through the effort, activity, or agency of a person or thing: This story is the work of an active imagination. Erosion is the work of wind, water, and time.
b. Full action or effect of an agency: The sleeping pills did their work.
c. An act; a deed: "I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity" (Ecclesiastes 1:14).
6.
a. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, or literary or musical composition; a work of art.
b. works The output of a writer, artist, or musician considered or collected as a whole: the works of Shakespeare.
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There is nothing in these definitions that says work and play are opposing principles... just different outward expressions part of the same movement. It is our subjective distorted understanding, conditioned by materialistic consumer society, that wants to polarize by glorifying play and demonizing work.
ReplyDeleteI don't think you gotta "get out there" and find your bliss... if it ain't right in front of you and/or within you already then it's to be found nowhere else in this world.
My only argument with those who say "it's not work if you love what ...you do" is that just because you personally happen to be fortunate and doing what you love, it doesn't mean that the effort of those less outwardly fortunate is for nothing. Especially in this day and age, how easy is it to get out there and find the job of your dreams?? Even if you do, does that make you happy and fulfilled inside?? What happens if you lose your job.... then where is your bliss??
My survival and thriving comes in moments when I don't reject whatever menial tasks are put before me, because it does contribute and is part of the bigger picture, the joy of creating. It is one part joy and another part effort, going with the flow and working harmoniously with whatever friction comes up, the result of which is always further growth.