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Friends have asked "what's truly important in life?" I don't have the answer to that. It's something that every person should discover by himself. But you can find your answer; that's your life journey.
But I do know something about work and life. They are two different things.
But who ever listens to that? I've been writing about it for so long but nobody pays really good attention to it. In fact, it's a post that registered low readership in the blog. Nobody wants to know.. or maybe just don't care.. or maybe have gotten themselves so entrenched in their respective work zones which they are not inclined to give up... not yet. Or simply have as a habit taken so many things in life for granted that they can't tell anymore if it's good or worthy at all.
Don't! Work is not the be-all or by-all of life and living. Take it away and you'd still be alive. And you could queue up for interviews again and again. But take away life ... you're gone. Period.
Life is that whole experience that puts you together as a person. It's the touch of happenings, incidents, occurrences, wonder, awe, surprises, revelations, relationships, discoveries, retrospection .... all what life and living is about which happens to you. It's what makes you who you are-what you are. Not living life the way it should makes you incomplete. Insensitive, Jaded. It's a narrow world that centers only on one individual -- the me-person. Oh yes, we work for many reasons --- families, financial independence, dreams and ambitions, careers, children, education .. so many reasons, some sublime. All well and good. Nobody is taking that away from you. But in the pursuit of these -- we tend to lose self, that person inside who started off as a creator right after God's heart. We bury that person down the bottom rank of our being. We lose the balance that our lives should and need.
"Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only part of the first." -- Anna Quindlen
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