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Sometimes i wonder how people can do what they do for a living. then i wonder how i can do what i do for a living. its a machine i guess and a real crusher at that. i mean, you need money to live so you work for your money; some people work to live other people live to work. i guess what i am ruminating on is the people i know who work jobs that are not challenging to their intellect, but put there mind to work best outside of "work." that is, to say, they are creative individuals with imaginations and dreams. a famous philosopher was once explained to me to regard art as the highest of all human experience. i have never since doubted that interpretation of life and meaningful existence. i mean what else do we have really, to differentiate human nature from other beings? personally, i am most appreciative of the art of song and music, but any area is just as respectable to me. very simply, art as experience is the pinnacle of pleasure and purpose as a human being on earth, whether its true artistic appreciation, or the creative act itself.
ultimately, in the modern world i imagine the ideal is to find balance, as with anything in life. balance your work with your life. all too often i see work win over life; energy and spirit drained, you rest for another day. its a tough fight for some of us (if recognized as such at all). i admire the creators of life, i admire those who rise above the mechanics and drudgery of routine everyday life and come out on top in creation of artistic forms. i will also, always be evvious with those who have it all together, but perhaps this is an illusion that i have created, after all, no one has it all together and someone's always gonna have it a little more together than you or i...