WORK! - Why is there always so much to do?

Sometimes I think to myself - why do I have a seemingly never-ending to-do list? In fact, if I squint and think back to yesterday, its very likely my to-do list is getting longer. Am I sane, or living in sanity?

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Personally, I think that if there was nothing to do, I would be worse off mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The lengthening to-do list is representative of a purpose that drives me forward, each and every day. To spend time doing paperwork, accounting, viability analysis, on the ground analysis, data analysis, interviews, and endless amounts of research and learning on each and every topic I embark on - it is maddening and life-giving at the same time. I think these are the contradictions that make life worth living.

It is easy to think, take retirement for example, that with more time we will get more done, more books, more rest, maybe even more gardening! But of course 'more time' is an illusion. We amongst the living only get the same 24 hours per day, each and everyday, in every phase of live that we are lucky enough to live.

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Looking for an appropriate image, I came across the mysterious grammar of the above image, and for those of you who like coherent subject verb object notation, I will summarize what I think Mr. James Scott was trying to say:

TIME and SPACE are ILLUSIONS which have been introduced to us by those who wish to commoditize and monetize on the time and space of others.

This thought is fascinating and deep, on many levels, but in terms of my discussion here, I want to challenge the green grass assumption of a perfect age where our time was endless tramping through green meadows full of wild flowers. That is, I want to challenge the assumption that work makes us unhappy and that before the 'invention' of work we were happy.

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While setting up development work flow, maintaining up to date with each and every crypto wallet, posting on steem, making videos, learning new programming languages, planting trees, interviewing locals, shuffling papers and leaving comments are each very different - they are each work to somebody (at least me ;p). Sometimes we might engage with a project and someone might tell us explicitly that, 'That is not work!', as if their opinion that making and taste-testing different types of banana cake isn't work means something to me!

I don't have time to care what you think about my work, I'm too busy :)

_{Work gets messy! source}

There was no magical time without bosses. We are more able than ever before to seize our own freedom of self, a freedom that, at its core, allows us to choose who we serve and what we work on! Don't blame history or capitalism or Bob Boss for your woes - restructure your work flow!

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To Long, Didn't Read? If you don't like your work - you are doing it wrong!