What does it matter

It looks like at some point, I am going to have to get a second job. My wife is unable to work at this point due to her studies and my daughter legally can't being less than 2.5 years old so, the decision is pretty easy. I don't mind, work is part of this life and in mine, provides some purpose.

Since young it has always been my intention to work myself to death one way or another, no matter whether the money is needed or not. Many people want to retire, I want to be able to die doing what I love and when I consider what that is, it isn't watching TV or sitting on a beach somewhere.

Sure, I would rather not die doing some meaningless work full of drudgery but if the work serves a purpose, is it meaningless? We a individuals are the ones who apply meaning to our world and as I see it, if my actions provide opportunity to my family, there is purpose and utility in action. There are worse ways to die than working toward what one considers a better life.

People are quite negative when it comes to work, many seem to avoid it at all costs and the costs can be very high indeed. In many cases, it can cost the core of their purpose and meaning as rather than work toward what they consider important, they avoid the work it takes to get there and instead hope miracles happen.

I don't believe I these kinds of miracles, the kind where without action and intention desires are magically met. It is a reliance on external forces to provide and fulfil meaning. How important is our view if we aren't willing to work toward it ourselves?

This is how I see my work, whether it be here or there, it is a journey toward something more and no matter whether a goal is reached, the path is fulfilling with each action as it is in service to something larger than myself. Family, community, the future. No matter the work, when it is performed with intention abd purpose it can provide meaning.

A lot if people are stressing because of crypto prices and Steem being in the gutter but why, what are their intentions and does it matter? Money is a tool and like all resources, it isn't what one has but how one uses it that matters. Whether rich or poor intended actions matter to personal meaning and many seem to rely on a future of wealth to provide it while spending their current time waiting for it to come about. It may never.

We each live our own experience of this existence and if in our many moments we are not working toward a better version of ourselves, what is our purpose? If we can't find meaning in what we are doing now, what makes us think that if Steem goes to the moon it will be any different? To me it seems wasteful of resources to wait for a better world than to take and make steps toward one, it is a turning away from responsibility. To each their own.

I guess the difference in experience is that a life of purpose whether useful or not makes any work able to be suffered, no matter the type. For some that purpose is just to survive another day and they will lay their life on the line to try. It is interesting to consider what some will do to survive or provide for their families and what others are unwilling to do because they feel it beneath them. It is interesting to watch people live lives they do not enjoy yet are unwilling to do anything to change it, just wait for better times.

In my world, better times are a process of being able to work toward better times as if the investment isn't made, the realisation of what better actually is, is unlikely. Many are waiting in what others would consider the lap of luxury for better times while others are working hard to be in a similar position.

Life is about perspective and we each have our own expectations of what it should contain. Some want easy, some work hard toward it but does anyone find satisfactory meaning in waiting for a future that may never arrive?

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
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