Since communism is now being taught to our young people in our colleges I think it's only fair to challenge some of the politically correct thoughts that are going around. If society tells us what work to do we don't really have any choice except to do that kind of work. For most of us more rewarding and soul fulfilling work is simply not available and we need to work just to buy food for ourselves and our families. Forget about soul fulfilling work that benefits society, we are just trying not to starve!
It would be nice to offer a service or product that comes from our heart as a labor of love and is greatly in demand by lots of people willing to pay for it. It does happen to some people you know, and I wish it would happen to me. In the meantime I want to eat, so I work general labor at the local factory.
Since my job is not that fulfilling I spend my spare time doing things that I love, including writing these blogs. You might say that the only reason I work my day labor job is so that I have the ability to do some of the things I love when I'm not working that job.
If I could make a living by writing books I would, but so far the things that I write about are not that popular. Society values the work that I do at the factory but doesn't value the work that comes from my writing. So nonintellectual general labor is worth more to society than my intellectual labor and spiritual labor.
This is unfortunate because the development of the soul requires hard personal effort, it requires labor! So work is important, very important, because the energy that the physical body produces through work is used to create the soul. This is a lifelong task that requires all kinds of work, physical work, emotional work, mental work and spiritual work. We can't just focus on one specific type of work because that's not how it goes. But I can say this, rewarding and fulfilling work develops the soul much faster than working on an assembly line someplace.
So the true reason for work is to develop our souls. Creative work is an expression of the entire being, an expression of the heart and soul and carries the highest value that any gift can have, the gift of ourselves. Soul sucking repetitive assembly line work produces only material objects that don't bear the signature of our soul.
So I do both! I work general labor at the local factory doing mindnumbing repetitive labor and in my spare time I write! In my work at the local factory I exist as a fellow human being, nothing special and quite ordinary. In my writing I express myself as a unique individual that has something unique to share with the rest of the world.
I write because I am much more than a common person, I write because I am unique! Everybody says that being human is the highest goal. I would like to share that you cannot be less than human! You can be so much more! You can be unique!
I am both happy and sad for you ?!
It's sad when people aren't able to get by financially by exercising their passion.
But I'm happy you've found a platform on which you can persue your passion, even if you can't make a living off of it (yet)!
There are millions of people in America in the same boat, me included.
Keep up the good works, for yourself and the millions like you!
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Thanks for the comment. I hope that I can speak for the millions like me and like you as well! We all need to hear that we are not alone in our values and experiences of life!
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I admire the coherence of your soul... This planet does want to convince humans that they are nothing special... Keep spreading your message, your unique voice will be heard by millions... it needs to be :) Check out my latest post on identity if you fancy...
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Thanks for the comment and I will check out your post on identity right now!
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